This coin came w/ a bunch of late
roman AE4's. However, it seems to be a very small AR coin of a much later period (unless it's some
byzantine coin I didn't run across). Who knows how much this stuff gets mixed up.
It seems to be very hard silver or very
white bronze, the fragment is 9 or 10 mm across,
still making the original coin << 20 mm.
It looks like some of the long-cross denari (or other stuff like
crusader coins that was floating around) from the 11th or 12th century, but the craftmanship is so
good, that it's tough to place it in that era.
I sort of see an R and and E on the bigger
cross side, that I'll call the
obverse.
Any guesses ?
Thx,
-ML
