Extremely Rare Byzantine Coin.

[Horst H]

This Byzantine coin is exremely rare. I searched the whole internet and didn't find any other coin that looks like this.

Can anyone identify it?

[Abu Galyon]

Perhaps SBCV 1011 (which is not rare at all). There may be other possibilities; I can't really make out anything on the reverse except green encrustations.

Bill R.

[Horst H]

The theme looks very similar, but the plumes of the helmet are of equal length on my coin. There are other differences as well.

Thanks for your help.

[djmacdo]

Such minor differences are common on Byzantine bronze coins of this period and meaningless.

[helvetica]

>but the plumes of the helmet are of equal length on my coin

Differences in such relatively minor details on late Roman and Byzantine coins are,
as djmacdo says, quite common and have no influence on the identification of the coin.

Such coins were often struck from a large number of different dies, which broke,
cracked, got stolen or lost, so had to be replaced by new dies usually engraved by
different engravers whose interpretation differed from others.

Important differences on such a coin would be if the IQ-cross over M over officina letter
in the left and right fields had their positions reversed, or the plume had been omitted.

I often receive coin images by email for identification, for which the owner, usually a
new collector, is convinced that his or her coin is unique because the position of the
diadem ties on, for example, a common coin of Constantius II, fall in a different way,
or a VOT wreath has 2 more leaves.
It is quite a common error which new collectors make, being used, as they are, to
current modern coins, which are generally identical except for the date.