Justinian 8-nummi

[Abu Galyon]

The type description in Sear for these 8-nummi varieties states that 'sometimes' there is an exergual line, but mentions no exergual text. And the 8-nummi coins listed in DOC and BMC all seem to be without TES or any other mint designation. So what do you make of this?

Bill R.

[Posa]

I´m not quite sure, what this really is beneath the line, because normally the E in TES is the rounded  and not a rectangular one.

gegards Posa

[Abu Galyon]

I´m not quite sure, what this really is beneath the line, because normally the E in TES is the rounded   and not a rectangular one.

gegards Posa

Yes, indeed. And the word 'normally' is almost not strong enough: I'm sure I've never seen a specimen of the 16-nummi varieties with a rectangular Latin E. So I wondered whether the apparent TE[ ] could be some sort of undertype effect, or some curious wear pattern. It does not look like the result of tooling.

Bill R.

[Posa]

Well my first idea was, for the line and the letters end so abrupt, if the die was formerly used for something else and still bares traces of the former cut. It´s of course no result of tooling and overstriking.

Posa