Anonymous follis

[Magistros]

Hi,

Is this Anonymous Follis Class K (SB 1901)?

Thanks

[wileyc]

Yes, I agree Class k.

cw

[Magistros]

Thank you! Are these coins normally clipped in this way? It is almost square shaped.

[Simon]

I have not seen clipped but normally messy with understrikes. To make matters worse you will find many overstruck  by Alexius  Tetartera.

Here is a tetarteron that also depicts the Virgin, the remains of the K class follis are the balls around the image. One coin in particular SBCV-1910 does not exist, its is a tetarteron overstruck on a K class follis.

[SC]

Is it clipped or was it struck on a flan cut from an older and larger coin?

SC

[Magistros]

I have not seen clipped but normally messy with understrikes. To make matters worse you will find many overstruck  by Alexius  Tetartera.

Here is a tetarteron that also depicts the Virgin, the remains of the K class follis are the balls around the image. One coin in particular SBCV-1910 does not exist, its is a tetarteron overstruck on a K class follis.

Thanks Simon very interesting

[Magistros]

Is it clipped or was it struck on a flan cut from an older and larger coin?

SC

It looks like it has been clipped

[Simon]

Is it clipped or was it struck on a flan cut from an older and larger coin?

SC

I think it was struck on a strange flan but I am just speculating. Normally when discussing clipped coinage we are talking about a government mandate and action to clip the coins, that does not include someone vandalizing  the coin by shaving it or in this case reshaping it. Who knows where a coin traveled or what someone did to them to pass the time.

[SC]

I am not so sure it was clipped after striking.  If you put it on a piece of paper and draw out the remainder of the circle it appears that the design is only centered on the bits that remain - it is not centered on the circular part.  If I am right about this then that means it was struck on the odd shaped flan - which was cut down to size from an early larger coins.

SC

[Magistros]

I think you are right that it was struck on this flan, but I cannot see any traces of it being struck on an earlier coin. The flan is also quite thin