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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Voulgaroktonou, post: 3270962, member: 84047&quot;]The ”Anonymous” series also provides a rare example of a specific innovation of coinage described by a contemporary Byzantine author. The historian John Skylitzes, writing in the second half of the 11th c. ascribes the introduction of the series to the piety of John Zimiskes: “And he [Zimiskes] ordered also the image of the savior to be engraved on the nomisma and the obol [i. e., follis], which had not been done before this. And Greek letters were engraved on the other side to about this effect: “Jesus Christ, King of Kings”. And the emperors who succeeded him did likewise”. Grierson has pointed out that Skylitzes is inaccurate in one point: no anonymous gold coins (nomismata) are known, but his description of the obol [follis] is accurate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for all the wonderful write ups and photos! I&#039;ll show just one of mine, a neatly cut down example of class E; SB 1855. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]862697[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]862698[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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