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<p>[QUOTE="seth77, post: 3868122, member: 56653"]To me this assignment raises two very important questions:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. What Asia Minor city was prominent enough to mint local/provincial coinage after 1270/1290 and was still under de facto (or at least de jure) Byzantine rule in the 1320s when the dispute between Andronikos II and III took place?</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Is it possible that we are facing a situation similar to the Latin trachea and the Greek states that operated in the 13th century where there were two (possibly simultaneous or at least closely related) denominations -- the large modules and the small modules? Such large discrepancy in weight and die size seems to suggest this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="seth77, post: 3868122, member: 56653"]To me this assignment raises two very important questions: 1. What Asia Minor city was prominent enough to mint local/provincial coinage after 1270/1290 and was still under de facto (or at least de jure) Byzantine rule in the 1320s when the dispute between Andronikos II and III took place? 2. Is it possible that we are facing a situation similar to the Latin trachea and the Greek states that operated in the 13th century where there were two (possibly simultaneous or at least closely related) denominations -- the large modules and the small modules? Such large discrepancy in weight and die size seems to suggest this.[/QUOTE]
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