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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2223464, member: 19463&quot;]What Sear says is that the coins of Tiberius S448 and Maurice S532 which are listed as having blundered Tiberius legends can be separated by the cross/trefoil trick.&nbsp; This gets easier when you remember that Tiberius coins stop at year 7 so larger numbers are Maurice.&nbsp; S533 are Maurice coins with Maurice in the legends and continue to numbers higher than 9 so 8 and 9 are the only problems.&nbsp; Steve&#039;s coin is a S532 year 9.&nbsp; Sear mentions later coins are less blundered and this only has TIU for TIB so that is pretty good making this a great example of the situation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It gets worse.&nbsp; Sear notes that earlier works like BMC gave S532 to Tiberius so the reattribution due to the trefoil must have been a theory of more recent scholars (Hahn???).&nbsp; I do not have any big books on Byzantine and a set of the good stuff is over $1000.&nbsp; Lets recall that they cover a 1000 year span and a huge number of coins.&nbsp; Do we know that the new theories are right and the old classics are wrong?&nbsp; Know is no word to use in any science.&nbsp; People who know everything don&#039;t know what they don&#039;t know.&nbsp; Current scholarship assigns Steve&#039;s coin to Maurice.&nbsp; Probably.&nbsp; At least as certainly as Pluto is or is not a planet....</p><p><br /></p><p>Byzantine bronze coins are for people who like to think and imagine.&nbsp; They are less good for those who like to admire gems of perfection.&nbsp; I&#039;d like them better if I were able to afford and understand the books on them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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