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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ancientnoob, post: 2106983, member: 44140&quot;]Ok, I&#039;ll bite.</p><p><br /></p><p>Answer:</p><p>First what repels me from Byzantine Bronze coins is general lack of completeness of the intended design and condition of the great majority of available specimens of most types.</p><p>Second what repels me from Byzantine Silver is price. Many of the gem specimens are pretty expensive, but if you can make conditional exceptions than a nice one can be had a few hundred dollars.</p><p>Third what repels me from Byzantine Gold. Price. The general obscurity of emperors after the demise of the ancient empires. I would have a tough time rattling off Byzantine emperors after say AD 1000.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I do love and what draws me to a particular Byzantine piece is a combination of factors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Price: I have to be able to afford it.</p><p>Assuming a can afford whatever Byzantine piece available to me...</p><p><br /></p><p>Emperor: If them emperors has an exceptional and noteworthy reign or somehow contributed to human history then I would love a coin of the ruler.</p><p><br /></p><p>Condition:The coin has to be at least what I would consider VF- for Bronze, F + for silver and EF for Gold. (Notice I have no Gold, but if I am going for gold I will go for the gusto.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Style: The coin I select would ideally be a coin of the time in the reign of said emperor that reflect highest artistic style available. For example the super big Justinian Follis. Not the piddly late ones. Now If I found a year XXX or equivalent in high grade, I would buy it, but not before the giant early 40 piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mint: I like Nikomedia and favor the style and seemingly better condition of the mint products. I would accept a coin from any mint. I would only make conditional sacrifices if the mint were Italian or African.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Andronicus III Paleologus[ATTACH=full]397444[/ATTACH]</p><p>Andronicus I Comnenus</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]397445[/ATTACH]</p><p>Justinian I</p><p>[ATTACH=full]397446[/ATTACH]</p><p>Anastasius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]397447[/ATTACH]</p><p>Khusro II</p><p>[ATTACH=full]397448[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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