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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 3986908, member: 95174&quot;]I have seen about a dozen of these in the past Mike. Most of the examples&nbsp; I saw were coming from a dealer in the Netherlands, in fact I think that is where I acquired mine. In each case the cutting was done in antiquity and the&nbsp; Christ portrait was still visible and uncut. I do not think these were done by the government but by an individual or individuals. At some point the old coinage had no longer been usable or the rate of exchange for an old follis was not favorable to a tetarteron. The person or persons cut the coin and perhaps melted the rest. </p><p>If it was the government or a moneychanger, it was not done in mass, we would have seen more examples. </p><p>It would have been sacrilegious to have cut the portrait of Christs face so that is why none of the examples show this, also it was easier to pass it off as a tetarteron in passing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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