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<p>[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 8232457, member: 110226"]Nice folles! Do you have a follis of his with just his portrait and a "M" on the reverse? That type is somewhat elusive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fortunately, not all of Phocas's coinage ended up under the hammer or thrown into the melting pot. There are lots of his gold solidi being offered in various sales on on dealers' lists. Plus, his bronze coinage does appear unaltered.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems, at least for the gold coinage, people, at least those who dealt with gold coins, which I imagine was a tiny portion of the population at the time, valued the solidi for the content and really didn't care who was on the obverse. The bronze coinage was a different matter, since that was the coinage of the masses, much as it was in Roman and Greek times. Better to strike over the old boy's image than to have it pass from hand to hand at a time with Heraclius was fighting to win and retain the throne.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 8232457, member: 110226"]Nice folles! Do you have a follis of his with just his portrait and a "M" on the reverse? That type is somewhat elusive. Fortunately, not all of Phocas's coinage ended up under the hammer or thrown into the melting pot. There are lots of his gold solidi being offered in various sales on on dealers' lists. Plus, his bronze coinage does appear unaltered. It seems, at least for the gold coinage, people, at least those who dealt with gold coins, which I imagine was a tiny portion of the population at the time, valued the solidi for the content and really didn't care who was on the obverse. The bronze coinage was a different matter, since that was the coinage of the masses, much as it was in Roman and Greek times. Better to strike over the old boy's image than to have it pass from hand to hand at a time with Heraclius was fighting to win and retain the throne.[/QUOTE]
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