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Offline Andreas G

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Tesserae
« on: August 16, 2010, 03:00:45 pm »
Hi
Does anyone know from which period this Tesserae is?
All help will be appricated


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Offline Will Hooton

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Re: Tesserae
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2010, 03:43:24 pm »
Hi Andreas,

It's not a tessera, it's a prutah. Something like this:

http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=219236
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Offline Andreas G

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Re: Tesserae
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2010, 04:09:30 pm »
Hi
Will are you sure??
I was to fast so I miss to write the description I got when I bought it.
ROMAN. Imperial. PB Tesserae : Two cornucopia with caduceus between / Spearpoint

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Re: Tesserae
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2010, 04:17:20 pm »
Ahhh, that's different then. It does bear a very strong resemblance to the prutah however, and I wouldn't be surprised if there was some connection between the prutah and your lead tessera.
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