AndrejB84
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Does this look like an imitation? The reverse is a Phrygian or Macedon helmet.
17mm, 2.8g

Camerinvs
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Bericht: 30-nov-2025, 16:53
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It certainly looks like an imitation. The lettering alone is obviously meaningless.
There's a lot more that was written than I thought on so-called barbarous imitations. Here is the search “barbarous” in the Numista library.
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