This one has a hard black
patina and looks old to me, but it's so strange that I wonder if it's some kind of recently-struck fantasy item.
It's based on S.533, the
Maurice Tiberius 40 nummia of
Antioch, year 15,
officina delta (an
officina that actually wasn't used that year?). The
head has been
reduced to a perfectly circular blob, perched on a columnar neck and topped by an inverted-U of hair. There are traces of
his shoulder to the left and traces of
his name, RICI, at 1-2 o'clock. Maximum
diameter is 29 mm and
weight is 7.75 grams. Any ideas, anyone? Thanks!
