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rami1785:
can you please identify this coin

Waldemar S:
Julian II Apostata , maybe the one from Antiochia
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4001583

SC:
Appears to be Antioch.  Whether official or a contemporary imitation is unclear.  The bust style looks quite good.  But hard to tell with the reverse. 

The "hook" on the outer edge of the coin is interesting.  It became quite common on AE3s struck under the Valentinian 364-378 but can sometimes be found before and after that. 

Someone, I think Callu but am working from memory here, believed that these were caused by a flaw during the formation of the flan.  His theory is that some flans at this period were made by dropping appropriate weight molten blobs of metal onto a flat stone which then had another flat stone placed on top of it.  This would flatten these blobs like pressing down on spherical balls of cookie dough to make flat round cookies.

These "hooks" were caused by differential cooling.  If the blob cooled evenly it would press flat evenly and create a round flan.  But if part of the blob started to solidify quicker than other parts then that part would resist the downward and outward pressure.  The molten metal would then flow around this obstruction - the cooler less ductile bit of metal - creating these "hooks".

SC

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