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<p>[QUOTE="BenSi, post: 3959664, member: 95174"]An interesting update to this conversation. I just read a short article with wonderful statistics on lost coin finds found at the archeological site of Venizelou METRO station in Thessalonica during the years 2008-2015.</p><p><br /></p><p> I have been using information on coin excavation finds to create a better picture of rarity of a specific coin. I normally only focus on tetartera but this article went through Roman to Byzantine times ( 4th to 15th century.).The tetartera finds were interesting to me but I know we have many more collectors of the anonymous follis. Now, granted this is only one site but they found 553 anonymous follis. This is the ratio for each type.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1043114[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p>It creates a wonderful picture of anonymous follis finds in Thessalonica and gives part of a guideline for the rarity of the individual issues.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BenSi, post: 3959664, member: 95174"]An interesting update to this conversation. I just read a short article with wonderful statistics on lost coin finds found at the archeological site of Venizelou METRO station in Thessalonica during the years 2008-2015. I have been using information on coin excavation finds to create a better picture of rarity of a specific coin. I normally only focus on tetartera but this article went through Roman to Byzantine times ( 4th to 15th century.).The tetartera finds were interesting to me but I know we have many more collectors of the anonymous follis. Now, granted this is only one site but they found 553 anonymous follis. This is the ratio for each type. [ATTACH=full]1043114[/ATTACH] It creates a wonderful picture of anonymous follis finds in Thessalonica and gives part of a guideline for the rarity of the individual issues.[/QUOTE]
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