@gogili1977 Both nice ones, I just started expanding my collection to include trachea, I decided to finish John II first. Last night I was...
Sorry I missed answering this question. Constantinople only for the Metropolitan issues and the regional ones were in Thessalonica and perhaps...
Not proven but surmised. We have no translated words to prove it. The billion Tetartera was valued higher than the regional one, that is because...
Good questions @Plumbata they are an obscure part of coin history. They were first minted during the major coin reform of Alexis I Comnenus in...
Your right @paddyman98, typo 1180 AD, sorry about that. The coin was thought to be minted between 1163 AD to 1183 AD ( His son produced no known...
I have been collecting coins of this denomination for twenty years and I just got a beauty. Anytime you find any of these coins this nice, it is...
[ATTACH] I just picked up another to add to my collection, a bit off center for the obverse but nice ( For these ) on the reverse. Its 4.4gm...
These oddities can be very interesting, granted the smaller the denomination the more likely you are to find one. ( I would love to see this with...
I am so sorry to hear this, he was one of the last of the last generation who enlightened us in many aspects of Medieval/ Byzantine coinage. I...
Thank You for the quick reply, I appreciate it. Have a good day.
Hi, I normally post in the Ancients section but a friend of mine has this coin, I am sorry the photos are out of scale but this is all he provide...
Beautiful coin but it is an A2, The A1's had no ornamentation on the reverse above and bellow, yours does. The denomination from A2 starts heavy...
I am always looking for overstruck tetartera and besides Alexius I, I have never found one. The coins simply stayed in circulation or were melted...
Just to add to Jason's newest here is mine. Class A2 29mm 12.45gm , cant get the photograph right but you can still see its beauty. The reverse...
One of the most exciting things about collecting this time period is your paving the way. The breakthrough of Hendy's work in 1969 set the...
I purchased this coin at auction believing it was misattributed, It was not a John III Vatatzes but a John II Komnenus. Why? Because the portrait...
https://www.thoughtco.com/archimedes-volume-and-density-3976031 Wow and here is the story.
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