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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3005585, member: 19463&quot;]I most definitely have what would be considered a bad attitude about &#039;attributions&#039; to show on Coin Talk or other online venues.&nbsp; I do not copy and paste from my database.&nbsp; I do not state obvious things like &#039;head left&#039; or legends that are readable unless they bear on some point under discussion.&nbsp; I rarely quote catalog numbers even though they are in my database unless I feel the reader might want to look it up and compare some point.&nbsp; I prefer to say something about the coin especially if it has something I consider interesting about the coin.&nbsp; Those who see my photos are welcome to use them as practice finding my coins in the catalog of their choice if they feel it necessary to know the numbers.&nbsp; I am not here to save people the expense of buying a catalog so they can dress up their eBay sales listing.&nbsp; I prefer to discuss the coins and not the numbers. </p><p><br /></p><p>There is an exception (or twenty) to every rule so I&#039;ll show my big Byzantine exception.&nbsp;&nbsp; This half follis of Justinian II is Sear Byzantine 1262.&nbsp; It is not just like the coin in Sear, it is the specimen illustrated in Sear.&nbsp; This is often cataloged as &quot;Sear 1262, This Coin&quot;.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]744526[/ATTACH] </p><p>My info really did not need to point out the Facing bust, large K or ANNO II did it??? To me, the pertinent info is the coin was struck on a quarter of a follis flan of the size used by Constantine IV as were most known specimens of this coin.&nbsp; Do you really get more out of something pasted in?</p><p><br /></p><p>Justinian II. First reign, 685-695. Æ Half Follis (17mm, 5.65g, 7h). Constantinople mint, 1st officina. Dated RY 2 (686/7). Crowned bust facing, holding globus cruciger / Large K; date across field; [cross] above, A below. DOC 20a; MIB 47; SB 1262. Near VF, brown patina.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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