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Offline moneta_auction

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Need Help, Electrum or Billon
« on: March 07, 2012, 05:13:20 pm »
Hi everybody,

I can't identify the metal on this coin of Manuel I, Electrum or Billon Aspron Trachy?
Size: 30/27 mm., weight: 3.90 g.

Please help me.
Thank you
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Re: Need Help, Electrum or Billon
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2012, 06:23:48 pm »
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Offline Abu Galyon

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Re: Need Help, Electrum or Billon
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2012, 07:26:40 pm »
Billon.  This is Sear 1966. Apart from the metal, the design of the similar electrum type (Sear 1961) differs in two ways:

(a) Christ's throne has a back;
(b) Manuel wears a chlamys instead of a loros.  

Bill R.
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