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Author Topic: Byzantine weight or coin or ID help  (Read 893 times)

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Offline Yuris N

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Byzantine weight or coin or ID help
« on: September 30, 2019, 04:10:40 pm »
Hey everyone, I'm not sure if it is weight or coin, 4.15 gr. any help would be grateful,

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Re: Byzantine weight or coin or ID help
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2019, 04:27:56 pm »
It is a die for jewelry bangles.  Indian and relatively modern, probably eighteenth or nineteenth century.

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Re: Byzantine weight or coin or ID help
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2019, 05:07:32 pm »
Thank you very much Djmacdo,

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Re: Byzantine weight or coin or ID help
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2019, 07:39:37 am »
It is peculiar that the obverse seems to copy a Byzantine coin somewhat--perhaps it is older than I first thought.

 

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