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« Last post by Graham S on Yesterday at 05:09:17 pm »
This is a metal detecting find from near Cambridge, England. It's so unlike anything I've seen before I'm not absolutely sure its even a coin. It is copper, 17mm across, cup shaped like some late Byzantine coins, but extremely thin. It has two small corrosion holes.
The convex side has what looks like an abstract face - curved eyebrow line, straight line down at right angles for a nose, two dots for eyes (but there is a third dot underneath where the right cheek would be). Under this 'face' is a sort of z-shaped line, and there is another vertical line down the right side.
The convex side has what looks like a very simplified version of the Constantine era two legionaries with a standard between them design: if it is, the standard is just a straight line in the middle, the 'heads' of the legionaries are just two M shapes, the body/arms are a lozenge shape, and the legs are smaller than the upper bodies. The photo is upside down.
It looks like there might once have been a line round the edge of the 'coin', but it has been clipped, which is odd as it is definitely just copper. The silvery tones in the photo are just reflections.
Any ideas what this could be?
Graham
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