For more details of these interesting types see: Bendall, S. "Some Comments on the Anonymous Silver Coinage of the Fourth to Sixth Centuries AD"...
So how do you explain the weights of these types? Ross G.
Personally I have never seen the attraction of a coin obscured by a layer of clay. But anyway, if desired the clay can be removed by soaking in a...
Looks OK to me. It's just not very worn. Ross G.
Yes, due to my own carelessness the .net domain was taken over by opportunists, so I had to move to the new glebecoins.org site. Unfortunately...
Just noticed this discussion on the rare but fascinating Papal-Byzantines. For my own (somewhat convoluted) take on the topic see here:...
Check its prices in CNG Research.
$10,500 plus ex's actually at Heritage sale 3109.
S.2439 is grouped with the Constantinople assaria mainly on the basis of style, although for some reason it is generally a scyphate type. Call it...
The coins listed in Sear as assaria of Andronicus II and Andronicus III are mostly flat issues of Constantinople (S.2439 being a noticeable...
Yes this is Sear 2283 (=2239) of Michael VIII. The obverse shows St Michael standing - you can see X/M above left. The reverse legend is...
No problem. For this and similar types see here:...
That really needs cleaning to remove the oxide. Try a liquid silver cleaner like Tarnoff.
Curious. The design copies that of the Latin Type A billon trachy SB 2021 (as the writeup basically says), with the legend roughly DECPiTC, but...
So I took Diomedes' new picture of the obverse, reduced the colour saturation to zero, and banged the contrast up to maximum et voila - pure...
The trouble is that on the original Lodge coin the silver fills the corrosion pits. And there is no sign of any corrosion products, or of any wear...
More likely re-silvered - you can see traces of corrosion under the silver.
Actually it seems the earliest Ionian coins weren't even striated. See here:...
Is it silver? Ross G.
I'd ask the seller to check the weight (and measure it to two decimal places). Ross G.
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