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<p>[QUOTE="catadc, post: 7884462, member: 103515"]Just my opinion, based on what I saw on the online market in the last 2.5 years:</p><p><br /></p><p>- this approximates rarity very well: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/12657555/Byzantine_Anonymous_Folles_in_the_Bolu_Museum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/12657555/Byzantine_Anonymous_Folles_in_the_Bolu_Museum" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/12657555/Byzantine_Anonymous_Folles_in_the_Bolu_Museum</a></p><p>- leaving aside class L-N, the hard to find for me where class J and H.</p><p>- class K appears often, yet most of the time is overstruck and in poor condition. Finding a nice one will prove difficult.</p><p>- there is a tendency to hoard some of the rarer types, yet all will appear on the market regularly. None of the class A-K is truly rare.</p><p>- most high grade I saw have the back ornamentation like <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/al-kowsky.97383/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/al-kowsky.97383/">Al Kowsky</a>'s. There are some on the market right now.</p><p>- the back ornamentation like Carl Wilmont's is one of the most common. It rarely has both the top and bottom ornamentation on the flan, and the above is a nice coin for the type.</p><p>- (edited to add) there can be found undocumented ornamentations. I saw at least 3 during this period and got one. </p><p><br /></p><p>The below is my most expensive anonymous follis, and the only one I ever saw with this back text. I had to have it, as a link between the IHSH-XRISTU and the standard IHSUS XRISTUS.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1359903[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="catadc, post: 7884462, member: 103515"]Just my opinion, based on what I saw on the online market in the last 2.5 years: - this approximates rarity very well: [URL]https://www.academia.edu/12657555/Byzantine_Anonymous_Folles_in_the_Bolu_Museum[/URL] - leaving aside class L-N, the hard to find for me where class J and H. - class K appears often, yet most of the time is overstruck and in poor condition. Finding a nice one will prove difficult. - there is a tendency to hoard some of the rarer types, yet all will appear on the market regularly. None of the class A-K is truly rare. - most high grade I saw have the back ornamentation like [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/members/al-kowsky.97383/']Al Kowsky[/URL]'s. There are some on the market right now. - the back ornamentation like Carl Wilmont's is one of the most common. It rarely has both the top and bottom ornamentation on the flan, and the above is a nice coin for the type. - (edited to add) there can be found undocumented ornamentations. I saw at least 3 during this period and got one. The below is my most expensive anonymous follis, and the only one I ever saw with this back text. I had to have it, as a link between the IHSH-XRISTU and the standard IHSUS XRISTUS. [ATTACH=full]1359903[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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