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Offline Yafet Rasnal

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Strange Constans II tremissis (possible fake)
« on: March 21, 2015, 06:33:21 pm »
Strange coin from a collector. It looks like a tremissis of Constans II but the style is low and the legend of obverse is unpublished. Sadly i have no metric information about weight and size. Any idea? I suspect this could be a fake.
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Re: Strange Constans II tremissis (possible fake)
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2015, 01:15:12 am »
I know little about these types, but I do know that (genuine) Byzantine tremisses often exhibit a crude style.

Ross G.
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Re: Strange Constans II tremissis (possible fake)
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2015, 04:48:30 pm »
I think there are 2 strange things in this coin:

- Unrecorded legend. As far as  i know Constans II tremisses bear legend calling him CONSTANTINUS, except for some issues of Rome where it is COSTANTI, but the style is different
- Cruder style than usual.

Any other idea?
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