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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 4289032, member: 95174&quot;]Well here are the two coins from Alexius. As I stated before they very common, the Sear number for these coins is SBCV-1932</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is listed as an uncertain mint or mints. To add to the confusion this coin was imitated until the 13th century. So it is extremely difficult to determine what was an official coin or a coin that was minted by locals to make up for a shortage in coinage. The tetarteron circulated for decades, never being recalled to be restruck. When it came time for imitators to create new coins, they chose tetartera with the simplest of designs. Mostly of Alexius and Manuel coinage. That’s what made this coin a favorite with imitators.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>SBCV-1932 is found with weights of .60gm to 3.22gm.&nbsp; Sizes from 12mm to 17mm</p><p><br /></p><p>These two are 14mm and 12mm with weights of 1.1gm and .8gm, because they are such low weight and variation in design, they might be imitations.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1091783[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1091784[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Additional note regarding the modern history of tetartera, the coins had little written about then until 1969. When Michael Hendy wrote the first work that analyzed the coin and began theory’s on where they were minted. That book is called “Coinage and Money in the Byzantine Empire 1081-1261. He went on to write Dumbarton Oakes catalog IV 20 years later. The DOC IV is available for free online.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;The imitation coinage was proven much later in the 2000’s, that really messed up weights of the previous finds, the weights of the imitations were most likely included in the previous finds. Most imitations were always underweight.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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