Maybe we'll have to rewrite the record books

[Sap]

Check out this find on the FORVM Ancient Coins forum.

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=41190

Sure, it wasn't officially issued like that, but it predates the Model Pennies by 1500 years or so. Think it sets a new record for oldest known privately issued bimetallic coin? 

[Triggersmob]

I'm not a member of FORVM, so I can't access the picture. Can you grab the pic and post it here.

Whatever it is, I bet BM1947 would like it.

[Sap]

Sorry, I forgot that non-members can't normally see FORVM pics. I'll see what I can do.



Is that working for everyone, or does it red-X for everyone but me? FORVM and KOTCT are both Simple Machines based forums; maybe the picture encoding will translate across.

Latest opinion over there is it might be Byzantine, rather than Roman. In which case, it wouldn't be record-breaking. The Axumites in Ethiopia had bimetallic coins before this. Here's an example on CoinArchives of a bimetallic Axumite coin from around 525 AD; a base-silver coin with small flakes of gold leaf pressed into it.

[ElleKitty]

I can see the picture, but I almost wish I hadn't.  Eek, that's ugly.

[Triggersmob]

It's a red cross for me.

[Humpybong]

I cannot see any pictures at all......found this with some pictures but can see others?

Do you know what format the picture is in.

[Sap]

OK, I just found out that this forum actually does have an "attach picture" option, in the "Additional options" down at the bottom of the Post Reply box. Here's the file, attached and referenced right here on the KOTCT forum.

[ElleKitty]

So -that's- what's wrong!

Whenever someone attaches a picture, I can't see a bloomin' thing!  But I can see anything with the IMG and /IMG tags.