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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 3975359, member: 95174&quot;]<p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">Not all that glitters is gold.</span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">This Alexius coin is filled with Mystery, to begin with it was rare , Dumbarton Oakes has only one in its collection. David Sear listed it as a full tetarteron with only a mild rarity , Sommer listed it as a half tetarteron again with minor rarity. </span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">No examples appear in the excavations of Corinth, Athens and now the Thessalonica excavation of the Metro. We have no real idea where it was minted. Perhaps Cyprus, but no mint&nbsp; at the time of Alexius I is mentioned anywhere.</span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">It took me years to find one ( My first example was gifted to me by Val , the author of CLBC.) then a handful specimens&nbsp; came to market. I then saw the quandary, I obtained examples from&nbsp; over 5gm down to 1.3gm.&nbsp; Here is one of my Best.</span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">Happy 2020!</span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">[ATTACH=full]1046261[/ATTACH] </span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">ALEXIUS TETARTERON SBCV-1933 DOC43 CLBC 2.4. Size 21.94mm Weight 3.6gm</span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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