I will return it.
I think this is a forgery, with the coin in hand the
rim is a
bit of it’s not the usual
Egypt bronze, combined with the
portrait, which is very like
Hadrian is a later
style (year 9 on and more likely year 16 on)
A year 5
portrait would not look much like
Hadrian and would be a
head type, with drapery (or
aegis).
there is also no trace of the N from
LEN year 9 what could explain the
obverse bust and
legend with fits into year 9
The back view detail is not well done so very likely not created from a
tetradrachm, but it could be from a
diobol but a year 16 on one. Even late date diobols often have a
head type portrait.
The
reverse OMONOIA
inscription with LE, along with 2
hands shaking is very common for the
Aurelius family tetradrachms and this is the likely source of the
reverse design.
I think it is a forgery simply because the
obverse details do not match the
reverse details.
A strange forgery, maybe 100 years old
