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Author Topic: Any help would be appreciated! Pseudo-imperial?  (Read 788 times)

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Leo I

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Any help would be appreciated! Pseudo-imperial?
« on: May 24, 2020, 08:33:13 am »
Hello.

I have been told that this Theophilus is a Merovingian 'pseudo-imperial' coin of the 9th century. I can find nothing about it but took the chance on the coin.

Thank you for any information you can provide. Also, does it look legit?

Thank you.



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Leo I

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Re: Any help would be appreciated! Pseudo-imperial?
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2020, 08:40:27 am »
Oh and this is ~0.6g and like 11mm or so. Thank you.
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Re: Any help would be appreciated! Pseudo-imperial?
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2020, 03:05:24 pm »
What is the material?  It looks like lead.  I suspect it is a modern fantasy, but this is not my area.  I doubt the attribution you have been told can be documented.
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Leo I

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Re: Any help would be appreciated! Pseudo-imperial?
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2020, 03:13:03 pm »
Hello. It is supposed to be silver, sorry I should have mentioned that.

If it is a fake I think they did a good job on making it look convincingly old. I have read that the Merovingian Psuedo-imperials were very unique and it is often hard to find comparables. That would be a good kind of coin to fake I guess. Anyway, thanks.
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Re: Any help would be appreciated! Pseudo-imperial?
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2020, 03:48:43 pm »
Serbian trash from modern hand cut dies.

This terrible fake is currently for sale at ebay with other trash (terrible style hand cut die fakes).

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Re: Any help would be appreciated! Pseudo-imperial?
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2020, 06:28:04 pm »
Thank you for the information!
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Re: Any help would be appreciated! Pseudo-imperial?
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