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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3177226, member: 19463"]The fact that there are three class A coins points to the fact that this is a bit of an artificial division for the sake of collectors/students. There are many minor variations of details on the A coins but has anyone established that certain details go with larger coin and others go with smaller ones? The number sequence suggests that the early A coins were lighter and lack ornaments (A1) followed by heavier (A2) and back to lighter (A3) but I have not read the evidence supporting this. Has anyone here? Terms like A2 and A3 allow us to refer to coins more professionally than saying 'big' or 'little' but the ranges seems to suggest we could have a continuous range rather than coins having to be one or the other. </p><p><br /></p><p>My well worn 15.7g coin would seem to qualify as an A2 assuming the wear lowered it a bit. My question is how great is the range of weights for this particular set of ornaments. Can the ornament variations be placed in a sequence by weight or are there coins like this that weigh 10g? This seems to be #1 on the chart linked below. </p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Anonymous%20Byzantine%20Class%20A%20Folles" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Anonymous%20Byzantine%20Class%20A%20Folles" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Anonymous Byzantine Class A Folles</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]817845[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously you have to see my A3 but being overstruck on an as of Gordian III (10.88g so an A3) makes it hard to assign (42b???). </p><p>[ATTACH=full]817846[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>17.0g (A2) I'd guess it is some 40 version on the chart??? Small flan loses needed details on the Book.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]817852[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally this A3 at 11.1g may be #31 but I really need help on this one. While lighter, it has larger diameter. is that significant or is it just an accident of striking. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]817858[/ATTACH] </p><p>Proper study of things like this would require dozens of coins from each of the 51 types (I assume there are others?) leaving people like me with more questions than answers. Only 47 more and I will have the set??? I may have to start buying worn coins with clear ornaments rather than looking for eyes and noses on the portraits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3177226, member: 19463"]The fact that there are three class A coins points to the fact that this is a bit of an artificial division for the sake of collectors/students. There are many minor variations of details on the A coins but has anyone established that certain details go with larger coin and others go with smaller ones? The number sequence suggests that the early A coins were lighter and lack ornaments (A1) followed by heavier (A2) and back to lighter (A3) but I have not read the evidence supporting this. Has anyone here? Terms like A2 and A3 allow us to refer to coins more professionally than saying 'big' or 'little' but the ranges seems to suggest we could have a continuous range rather than coins having to be one or the other. My well worn 15.7g coin would seem to qualify as an A2 assuming the wear lowered it a bit. My question is how great is the range of weights for this particular set of ornaments. Can the ornament variations be placed in a sequence by weight or are there coins like this that weigh 10g? This seems to be #1 on the chart linked below. [url]https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Anonymous%20Byzantine%20Class%20A%20Folles[/url] [ATTACH=full]817845[/ATTACH] Obviously you have to see my A3 but being overstruck on an as of Gordian III (10.88g so an A3) makes it hard to assign (42b???). [ATTACH=full]817846[/ATTACH] 17.0g (A2) I'd guess it is some 40 version on the chart??? Small flan loses needed details on the Book. [ATTACH=full]817852[/ATTACH] Finally this A3 at 11.1g may be #31 but I really need help on this one. While lighter, it has larger diameter. is that significant or is it just an accident of striking. [ATTACH=full]817858[/ATTACH] Proper study of things like this would require dozens of coins from each of the 51 types (I assume there are others?) leaving people like me with more questions than answers. Only 47 more and I will have the set??? I may have to start buying worn coins with clear ornaments rather than looking for eyes and noses on the portraits.[/QUOTE]
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