Moesia inferior, Nikopolis ad Istrum, 00. pseudo-autonomous, HrHJ (2020) 8.0.48.30 (plate coin)

Anonymous issue, 1st-3rd century AD
AE 12, 0.70g, 12.02mm, 180°
obv. Female figure, draped, stg. r.
rev. crescent with 5 stars
ref. a) not in AMNG
b) Hristova/Hoeft/Jekov (2020) No. 8.(?).0.48.30 (this coin)
Very rare (R9), S+, dark green patina

Most of them are holed and on this specimen an attempted piercing can be seen too. It is disputed wether these objects are coins at all. In a recension of Hristova/Hoeft/Jekov Nicopolis (2012) in "Archaeologia Bulgarica XVII, 2 (2013), pp.97-98" Dr.Nikolay Markov from the National Museum of History in Sofia has written about these obscure small tokens: "This attribution goes back to few articles by Rosen Kozhuharov, published between 1997 and 2008- My opinion is that these exemplars not only do not belong to the coinage of Nicopolis ad Istrum but are not even coins."
Nevertheless Mr. Jekov has decided to add them to Nikopolis.