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<p>[QUOTE="BenSi, post: 3192377, member: 95174"]A follow up to this conversation , I had spent the last few weeks revisiting many of the books I have on Eastern Roman coinage, I had a few questions I needed answered and this was one of them. When did the Anonymous follis class of the A3 become involved. This is what I found. </p><p><br /></p><p>The A3 class became into existence before 1979, I find it first mentioned in Metcalf's book " Coinage in South Eastern Europe 820-1396 " In it he mentions the A3 rests essentially on hoard evidence. What was deduced, the A2's were withdrawn from circulation when A3's were introduced, the A class was minted for 60 years on its own but the A3 class was minted alongside classes B, C and D. </p><p><br /></p><p>The book is a reworking of his earlier publication" Coinage in the Balkan's" published in 1965, it that book he makes no mention of an A3.</p><p><br /></p><p> Since Grierson's book Byzantine coins was published three years later as he does not address the findings so he must not have agreed.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did not find any other information more current than their writings except Michael Hendy, he contradicts himself in his own works, he states in in 1985 book, the coins started at 13g went up to 18g and then back down bellow 10gm, however in his brief mention of them in DOC IV he says the weights went from high to low ( 1994, printed 1999)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BenSi, post: 3192377, member: 95174"]A follow up to this conversation , I had spent the last few weeks revisiting many of the books I have on Eastern Roman coinage, I had a few questions I needed answered and this was one of them. When did the Anonymous follis class of the A3 become involved. This is what I found. The A3 class became into existence before 1979, I find it first mentioned in Metcalf's book " Coinage in South Eastern Europe 820-1396 " In it he mentions the A3 rests essentially on hoard evidence. What was deduced, the A2's were withdrawn from circulation when A3's were introduced, the A class was minted for 60 years on its own but the A3 class was minted alongside classes B, C and D. The book is a reworking of his earlier publication" Coinage in the Balkan's" published in 1965, it that book he makes no mention of an A3. Since Grierson's book Byzantine coins was published three years later as he does not address the findings so he must not have agreed. I did not find any other information more current than their writings except Michael Hendy, he contradicts himself in his own works, he states in in 1985 book, the coins started at 13g went up to 18g and then back down bellow 10gm, however in his brief mention of them in DOC IV he says the weights went from high to low ( 1994, printed 1999)[/QUOTE]
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