I need help identifying these coin's
 

I need help identifying these Gold coins :banghead:
They weigh 4.3 and 4.2 grams each.

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From the wording on the coins it looks like your holding some very nice Bezants.

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache...lnk&cd=2&gl=us

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The guy in the 1st picture looks like he has just laid eyes on a really good looking babe.

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bezants was my immediate guess though I have not eyeballed them in person yet

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OK, I bite!

Both are Byzantines.

Bad new is that I cannot read the second one, except the mintmark (CONOB), means that it was minted in Constantinople.

The first one is, most probably, a solidus from the emperor Phocas (602-10 AD)

http://www.wegm.com/coins/phocas.htm

the legend is something like:

(DN FO)CAS PERP AVG = Dominus Nostrum (=our master) FOCAS Perpetual emperor

VICTORIA AVG (???) = representation of the divinity of victory

CONOB = Constinople

Hope that helps!

(sorry I'm more interested in Roman coins...)

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:haha::haha::haha: heheheheh Thay do look funny

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thanks :wink:

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WOW BINGO :D thanks BUDDY ill try to find this one the CONOB = Constinople

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BTW, the second one could eventually be from the emperor Zeno

http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/zeno/i.html

Or, Anastasius

http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/byz/anastasius/t.html

Or Justin I

http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/byz/justin_I/t.html

Or Constantine IV

http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/byz/c...tine_IV/t.html

The letering style is (at least from what I've seen on Roman coins) suspect, and your coin could eventually be a barbarous copy of an official coin, similar to this one:

http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sb/sb0343.html

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>BTW, the second one could eventually be from the emperor Zeno

Nah! It's a Picasso!