261, Lot: 321. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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UNCERTAIN GERMANIC(?) TRIBES. Pseudo-Imperial coinage. Mid 4th-early 5th century AD. Æ (9mm, 0.61 g, 9h). Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right; pelleted border in lieu of legend / Cross within pelleted border. Wroth 191-3; W.R.O. Hahn, “A Sixth-Century Hoard of Byzantine Small Change from Egypt, and its Contribution to the Classification of African Minimi,”
NC (1980), -. VF, brown patina with earthen deposits.
Wroth notes the possibility that these may be issues of the Mauri, a native Berber tribe of Mauretania.