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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Unofficial & Imitative| > BZ53343
Byzantine Empire, Palaestina or Syria, c. 450 - 500 A.D.
|Unofficial| |&| |Imitative|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Palaestina| |or| |Syria,| |c.| |450| |-| |500| |A.D.|, This object, from the Alex Malloy Collection, was held by him for decades, only speculatively attributed as probably Islamic. The referenced recent article by Farhi indicates another possible attribution. As discussed by Farhi, in the second half of the 5th century, besides Byzantine nummi, low-value currency in Palaestina appears to have included similar sized centuries old Jewish prutah, cast Axumite imitations, and even bronze and lead blank flans. Many fragments of lead mirror frames, found over many years, appear to have been cut around decorative star-like or floral patterns to look like coins. They were almost certainly used as coins. The lead mirror frame fragment "coins" in Farhi have different patterns and are blank on one side, but this object is very similar.
BZ53343. Lead nummus, fragment of ornamented lead object coinage(?); See Farhi, H. "Note on Two Types of Byzantine Lead Currency" in INR 8 (2013) for similar examples, weight 2.836g, maximum diameter 23.1mm, from Alex G. Malloy Collection; SOLD



  






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