This group was brought to me at a coin fair yesterday - I know nothing of these things, and I have no book to help me. I paid money for them on a complete gamble - can anyone tell me what I have bought? Are there any here worthy of mention? If it helps they were apparently picked up by a soldier serving in North Africa during the second World War - not as a hoard, just kicking around in the sand.
Interesting Byzantines, cool story! Here is what my (minimal) knowledge from them (each , is the next coin): Row 1: Half Follis (K:20), Unknown, Anonymous issue Row 2: Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, Unknown Row 3: Half follis (XX:20), Unknown, Pentanummia (E:5), Pentanummia (E:5)
Diverse assortment there. You go from 6th century to 11th. Of the group, I would say the ones I would zero in on were the XX 20 coin lower left, (usually these were K, so the XX issues usually from minor mints), it looks like a Maurice Tiberius but cannot see the mint, and the smallest coin lower right, its an interesting piece to Byzantine specialist, though maybe not to everyone else. But, if you wanted to show one each individually we could help on each. If you wanted a book, the single best book for these is Sear's Byzantine coins and their values. Of all Sear's books, this one is virtually complete for every Byzantine coin ever struck.
