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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 7883164, member: 95174&quot;]When we talk about rarity in the coin world we see how often a coin or a ruler comes to market, Unfortunately this can be skewed on how hot a particular coin might be, forcing it to come to market by the seller following the demand. The catalogs are often based on previous sale records in turn that would indicate a rarity. Sears Byzantine coins Catalog was built with prices under this same philosophy, dealers providing the information on the current market price.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the prices of Anonymous follis series from David Sears SBCV 1987 edition. ( All prices listed are graded as <b>Fine</b> and are in <b>English pounds</b>)</p><p><br /></p><p>Class&nbsp; Price</p><p><br /></p><p>A1---- 18</p><p><br /></p><p>A2---- 12</p><p><br /></p><p>A3----8</p><p><br /></p><p>B-----8</p><p><br /></p><p>C-----10</p><p><br /></p><p>D----10</p><p><br /></p><p>E----18</p><p><br /></p><p>F----18</p><p><br /></p><p>G----10</p><p><br /></p><p>H----15</p><p><br /></p><p>I-----8</p><p><br /></p><p>J ( SBCV-1900)----15</p><p><br /></p><p>K (SBCV-1901)-----10</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I have always felt the best way to determine rarity was from site finds, not a perfect method because of location but the recent excavation of coins from the new Thessalonica Metro station 2008- 2015 we get an interesting picture, the numbers are not far off. I got this chart from a paper by Eleni Lianta on <b><u>The Byzantine Numismatics&nbsp; Single finds from the Thessalonica metro Archaeological Excavations 2008-2015</u></b></p><p><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p><b><u>[ATTACH=full]1359555[/ATTACH] </u></b></p><p><br /></p><p>In total over 16277 coins were found dating from the 4th to the 14th century, all lost coin finds, as the author put it coins that people could tolerate in losing. Here are three of mine I could not tolerate in losing. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my Class D</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1359556[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Class F</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1359557[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Class G</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1359558[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Feel free to post your Anonymous Follis coins, the more the better. </b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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