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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Only a Poor Old Man, post: 5393290, member: 111037&quot;]It is hard to tell on your example (and actually in most), but the most likely candidate is your friend the Bulgar-slayer. You see most class B follis were striken over class A2 ones. This is how scholars have determined who is really who in the whole series of anonymous follis. It was a common practice to strike the new coins over your predecessor&#039;s in those times, so by examining the overstrike patterns they could figure out the likely reign period of each class type. You can read about the established order of the types and the overstrike pattern&#039;s in our co-cointalker&#039;s [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] site.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ByzAnon/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ByzAnon/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ByzAnon/index.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I love examining this new histamenon of mine. Comparing it to the previous solidi, I can see that the increased diameter has allowed for extended artistic creativity which the Byzantines certainly took advantage of and destroyed the myth that they could not carve coin dies in an artistic manner. The disadvantage of course was that the histamenon is a coin prone to bending which probably was one of the reasons we got the later solution of the hilarious cup-shaped coins. I wonder though if the extended flan was the only reason they decided to move to the histamenon from the solidus. Anyone has any theories?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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