[ATTACH] Your layout is a bit confusing. If this is the number 5 you are referring to it is a Manual Comnenus coin, the grandson of Alexius. The...
Beautiful Acquisition David.
The previous examples have been excellent, I am envious @TheTrachyEnthusiast, but not your normal finds, especially for a beginner. Here are...
Personally I would go for the better example, but as with all collectables, a provenance of a published coin, it would make it an easier resell.
Thank you to several people on the assistance for this coin, especially @arnoldoe for posting the Bendall paper on the coins of the time of...
Even though that would make it just as rare of a coin, I still am not sure. The Trebizond coin in the article exists as two examples. The weight...
@arnoldoe Thank you, that is another consideration I had not thought of. Here is the Zervos article. (99+) A barbarous hybrid tetarteron of the...
I do not think it is one of the Corinth issues but it is defiantly they same hybrid. Christ on obverse and Alexius cross on reverse. There was...
I never thought I would acquire one of these hybrid Mule imitation tetarteron. In fact I never even went on a chase for it. I recently had one...
Thank you for posting, just bought a copy.
Try Andronicus II with Michael IX.
@Harry G , is it cup shaped or even slightly cup shaped? That would help date it . The Obverse is the Virgin standing in orans, the reverse two...
Sometimes it takes days , weeks, months to figure out a late Eastern Roman ( Byzantine) coin, it is a different type of collecting, most...
Douchev notes three variations of the coin. He also has it minted between 1262-1272 in Thessalonica.
[ATTACH] 12.4 mm 2.2gm So in a prevous post @seth77 you thought this coin came from the same series. Have you seen any new information about...
Nice write up @+VGO.DVCKS
@Black Friar I heard this story with a little variation when I purchased this coin, must have been around 18 or 19 years ago. I remember calling...
Thank You Ram , I have always had an appreciation but in my early collecting years the different types confused me as it would for other new...
It is interesting that Wayne Sayles put the John III tetarteron in his book as one of the Masterpieces of Romaion Coinage. Here is my example, I...
Hi Al, Pictured are 12th century coins from the reform from l to r, Manuel Hyperpyron, Manuel Aspron Trachy, Manuel Billion Trachy. 1 Hyperpyron...
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