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Skolot:
Hello! Please help me to identify this coin.

Byzantofil:
Interesting Arab-Byzantine imitation.  It is especially interesting because on the reverse, as it seems to me, someone tried to depict a typical Byzantine monogram, most likely meaningless.

Skolot:
Thanks!

Simon:
It reminds me of the bottom coin, it was sold as an imitation of the upper coin a monogram tetarteron. I was never certain but that would date it to the rule of Manuel in the middle of the 12th century.

Byzantofil:
Interestingly, these two monogrammed coins were minted from the same pair of dies.  Very interesting.  And I must say that in style the portrait of the emperor is much closer to the Arab-Byzantine imitations from VII c. than to the imitations of the late copper tetarterons.

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