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Author Topic: Official Constans or Arabic copy?  (Read 770 times)

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Offline James H7

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Official Constans or Arabic copy?
« on: January 31, 2019, 11:05:05 am »
The nearest i can find to this is BCV 1004 but on the reverse at 8.0 or thereabouts something that looks like arabic, and in the exergue what should be neos also looks as if it could be arabic. What do people think?
20x23mm
4.52g
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Offline Byzantofil

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Re: Official Constans or Arabic copy?
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2019, 04:38:14 pm »
It looks like the original Constans follis INPER CONST type , minted over also Constans m - type EN TOYTO NIKA follis, but earlier mint (Year I-III).
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Offline James H7

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Re: Official Constans or Arabic copy?
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2019, 04:38:25 am »
 +++ Thank you for that. You're probably right. There is so much going on in this coin.
James
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