I recently
met an interesting pentanummia. It can be assumed at first sight that this is just an imitation. But it seems to me that everything is not so easy.
By the
style of the
portrait, the coin is very similar to the crude
style Nicomedia pentanummias by
Maurice Tiberius. But why then next to the letter
is not
N, but
+ ? The blank made very neatly, cut from a
cast vawy strip, how it was done at the imperial mints. Size 14-15 mm.,
weight 1.6 gr. The crown at the
head of the emperor in very close to the seleucian and isaurian
portraits of
Heraclius with
his son. And what does the fragment of
legend in the left mean: ...
Nh...? May be
dN hERACLI? It turns out that this is
Heraclius? But from the coins of
Heraclius, the closest is the
type of the
Heraclius KYZ pentanummia
MIB 191. In general, this penta looks very mystery to me. What you think?