Objekt 9720
Official Coinage?
Description
Genuine and false minting authorities
Only recognized states and rulers have the right to issue coins and are in a position to guarantee their value. In turn, usurpers try to issue coins as quickly as possible in the attempt to underpin their legitimacy.
Object description
1. Roman Empire and Gallic Empire. Sestertius of Emperor Gallienus (253–268) and the tolerated usurper Postumus (258–267) as well as imitation of an antoninianus of the tolerated emperor Tetricus I (267–273), 260/273
Brass and low-grade silver alloy, struck
Inv. 1903.6300., 1924.1008., 1918.4503.
2. Roman Empire. Gold tremissis of the Western Roman Emperor Libius Severus (461–464), Ostrogoth follis on the “invincible Rome” and pseudo-imperial tremissis of the Frankish Empire bearing the title of the East Roman Emperor Justin II (565–573), 461/464 and 6th c.
Gold and copper, struck
Inv. 1918.4577., 1918.4523., 1918.4503.
3. Nagorno-Karabakh, autonomous republic in Azerbaijan, which is only recognized by Armenia. 1 and 5 dram 2004
White metal and aluminium-bronze, struck
Inv. 2011.572.2.-3.
Which Pieces are Fake?
[left]
Fake
10 and 50 kopek of Transnistria (Moldavia), a country which is only indirectly recognized by Russia, 2000
Inv. 2011.573.1. and 3.
[right]
Genuine
10 and 50 tenge of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2000
Inv. 2011.571.2. and 4.