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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2223059, member: 19463&quot;]The Latin Empire coin reminds me of how uncomfortable I am in identifying the not mainstream late Byzantines.&nbsp; In another post yesterday I showed what I believe to be a Bulgarian imitation (contemporary not the modern fakers from that country).&nbsp; I do not have a coin I believe to be a Latin Empire.&nbsp; Below is what I have been calling a Theodore of the empire of Nicaea.&nbsp; Theodore was one of the Byzantine emperors who never controlled Constantinople which was then in the hands of the Latin Rulers.&nbsp; Coins of all the splinter states and the Latins who were in Constantinople all look crude and confusing to me so any one I see unidentified requires some work and any one I see offered identified makes me want to confirm or deny that ID rather than blindly accepting it.&nbsp; On these I am a condition snob.&nbsp; I want coins with just a little detail than makes it possible to ID the thing.&nbsp; There are scraps of metal out there that are just beyond me.&nbsp; This one came from a $5 junk box in a shop in Cincinnati.&nbsp; It has more facial detail than many of these.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure I&#039;d call it high grade but I&#039;ve seen worse. I would appreciate hearing if you disagree with the ID.&nbsp; I&#039;m certainly less tan comfortable on the later coins.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]435772[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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