The silver content for these coins were at 6 to 7% at their best , by the time of Alexius III it was down to 2-3%
Here is a gem from my collection I bought many years ago. I don't take it out to often because I am afraid of losing silver. I decided to try to...
I have a question about this coin QG, Can you provide a better description ( I know it is in a case) of the area on the Virgin side bellow the MP,...
Be careful if you are live bidding to have a number in mind, the true benefit of the auction is for the seller, people will go well beyond the...
That will be no small task QG, the reason I started collecting late Eastern Roman coins was it was the road less traveled. Plenty of sources for...
Here is a recent one from a Leu Numismatic auction, it sold for 16k[ATTACH] Basil I the Macedonian, with Constantine, 867-886. Coin Die for a...
I am afraid some do sell, it has to do more with coins being sold out of category to uneducated buyers. However, I have purchased some very...
Sorry, I'm traveling and was having issues uploading the coin with hotel wifi. Don't see how to edit now.
Not a crusader coin per say but a coin that was defiantly used by the crusaders. In fact it was from a crusader that their name was determined....
Good question, the Metropolitan issues had a silver wash on them, however that is speculation on my part, I have seen silver washed tetartera ( 3...
Okay I found it. I can not cut and paste because it is a scan, but it is in the article " The big problems of little Change in the 12th century."...
Okay that is one of the benefits of being so focused on one denomination. I found that information in one of the articles on the academics web...
Yes any tetarteron minted in Constantinople (Metropolitan) had a silver content ( till Isaac II), they are much harder to find in collections, the...
Here is one of my hard to hell to photograph coins, the green patina makes it seem messy, its not. 2004D ISAAC II ANGELUS METROPOLITIAN TETARTERON...
[ATTACH] The normal iss of SBCV 1954
1953 JOHN II AE TETARTERON S-1953V DOC 14 Zervos Variation OBV Half length figure of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion;...
1453 is my choice, when the second capital, Constantinople fell and that was the end of the Roman Empire. The art changes by the end, the concept...
The lead ones were the start of the series, copper/bronze was in shortage at that the time of the coin reform. However we don't know why but they...
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5633 I am new to CT, here is a link to my collection, I specialize in tetartera...
This a lot more confusing than these authors have made the problem, we are not sure how the old and new denominations worked together. Another...
Separate names with a comma.
