Ancient coin....Letter K | Collectors Weekly

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Posted 12 years ago

A coin I received years ago and may have been in an uncleaned lot. Another ancient coin I do not know about. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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beyemvey, 12 years ago
That's a Byzantine half follis - the K indicates the denomination in Greek... a full follis would be twice the size and have an M... some Byzantine Folles were marked in Roman numerals... XXXX for a full (40 nummi) follis, or XX (20 nummi) for a half.

This coin is in rather poor condition. I can't tell the ruler from the photo, but I would guess a date of around 600-800 AD. Very common in this condition and not worth more than a few bucks, still an interesting old coin.

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