Hi,
the coin has very
sharp edge cracks, it is thus not likely to be
cast. It is more likely struck with
cast transfer dies.
It looks like silver or white metal, but it cannot be a silver issue because of the signature CONO(B) on the
reverse. A
siliqua would be
signed CONS*. And actually it looks like just CONO as if the maker did not know what to do.
The
style of the
bust, specifically the drapery looks like that of
Aelia Eudocia and also the
wreath is not in the
style of
Ariadne but more towards
Eudocia.
Thus it does not only look
fake, it is
fake and it is an impossible
type. (I guess one can exclude the possibility that it is a pattern in silver made for a
type of
tremissis which never has been found so far.)
byzcoll