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Thanks for the answer, I think I will stick to the simple method before trying something more advanced 😁

This remind me I have so many coin to clean. But I don't know where to start. Just putting them in distilled water for a few months and changing the water regulary while removing deposits with a toothpick from time to time should do the trick right?

I was about to buy that coin but before that I asked some questions to the seller about its provenance. All I got for answer was a red flag : "I don't remember, all i can say is that it came from Germany". So I did a little bit of extra research and I found the coin in the "Fake Ancient Coin Report" at Forum Ancient Coins. Bummer. "Guaranteed genuine!" *sigh* Sorry everyone 😔

Late Justinian follis and early Justin II follis (facing bust) from Antioch also had garbled / absurd legends. May be the Antioch mint administrators decided literacy wasn't a priority. Those legends are attributed to unskilled workers but it never got that bad at the other mints.

Thanks everyone for your answers. @ewomack @Curtis JJ I took a (long) look at Sear 162, MIB 88, DOC type 32 and those coins are exclusively from the 5th officina (Є). May be the production of the 3rd officina (Γ) for that type is so rare the officina is unlisted. The question of the "style" remain. @ela126 Nice find, happy to see there is another specimen out there! I went through the "Catalogue of the Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths and Lombards and of the empires of Thessalonica, Nicaea and Trebizond in the British Museum" to learn about germanic coinnage, it's true many coins have similar style/portrait. It's also interesting the people at TimeLine Auctions couldn't decide if it was from Constantinople or Ravenna, Greek or Germanic. @Tejas Imo the engraving looks too meticulous to fall in the category you mentioned (but it's still a possiblity). I'm even more confused now 😅 PS: Sorry for my english

Hello everyone, While wandering through eBay I saw that weird follis of Justinian and I can't find any information about it in the usual reference books. I couldn't find similar dies in acsearch & sixbid-coin-archive either. The style looks unique to me and it doesn't look like a production from the mint of Constantinople (a few things remind me of some half-follis minted in Salona and that's it). If anyone know something about such a coin, I'd be glad to hear about it.