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Is this a protocontorniate?

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Offline David Atherton

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A Flavian Protocontorniate?
« on: February 04, 2022, 08:31:49 am »
I bought this As of Titus very cheap. I suspect that the seller assumed it was a poor misshapen example. I suspect it's a 'protocontorniate'.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=174358

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Re: A Flavian Protocontorniate?
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2022, 12:39:19 pm »
I think it is most certainly a protocontorniate, perhaps a little cruder than most, but I'm not really equipped to weigh in on when or why this was done in antiquity.
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Re: A Flavian Protocontorniate?
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2022, 02:03:39 pm »
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Re: A Flavian Protocontorniate?
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2022, 06:28:21 pm »
Ron and Jay, thank you both for your thoughts about this strange coin!
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Re: A Flavian Protocontorniate?
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2022, 09:28:29 am »
It certainly looks like one.  There appears to have have been hammered with blows evenly distributed around the edge.

Some, like this small one of mine, have edges that have been finely made and smoothed:
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=4329&pid=84439#top_display_media


Others, like this one I recently posted, are a bit cruder:
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=127348.0

Jay's is among the crudest I have seen.

Do you have images of the edges of yours??

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