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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Black Friar, post: 3006845, member: 76221&quot;]As a collector of Byzantine coins, I particularly like the Justinian folles of Nicomedia and Carthage for sheer variety and size. Nicomedia put out some very large folles; Carthage, a variety of flan size and crazy die work.&nbsp; The seated variety of Antioch are very impressive coins.&nbsp; I only have a follis, a half-follis, and a ten nummia of that variety.&nbsp; </p><p>The photo below is NOT an issue of Justinian, but Justin II from the only mint that seems to have used old Justinian follis dies, and only for indictional years 1 and 2 of his reign. Because of the regnal dating, the issue could have been extremely short, perhaps less than a a year of our calendar which could account for the scarcity.&nbsp; They just wanted to quickly get the word out about the new emperor and used what they had.&nbsp; One of those fun things that happen in numismatics. Half and 10 nummis were also issued, and again, in very small numbers.&nbsp; These coins are very rare especially in choice condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a small group that surfaced at an ANA convention, if memory serves it was in Portland in 2015.&nbsp; A dealer from Europe had a group of 8 coins that sold out very quickly.&nbsp; The bad news, they were of very poor quality.&nbsp; I did get one from a bud who purchased two.&nbsp; Two months later I ripped one in a CNG auction, it&#039;s the example shown.&nbsp; I&#039;m convinced that folks didn&#039;t read the description, and thought it was a Justinian and passed.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks to Justinian, we have some way cool, and very large bronze coins. Note the year I on the reverse.&nbsp; As we all know, year 12 was the introduction of the regnaly dated issues.&nbsp; Cool coins all, thanks for the photos.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]745160[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]745161[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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