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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brian Bucklan, post: 2401161, member: 76544&quot;]Early Byzantine coins are boring compared to the Greek and Roman types. I&#039;ve been told that by more than a few collectors. No interesting reverse designs; just the denomination, year and mint-mark (sounds a lot like our modern coinage). I, for one, really like these types and have been avidly collecting coins of Anastasius through Justin II for years. There&#039;s a whole lot of denominations for these early Emperors. You can find examples of one nummus (reverse of A), two nummi (B), three (gamma), four (delta), five = pentanummium (epsilon), six (S), eight (H), ten = decanummium (I), twelve (IB), sixteen (IS), twenty = Half Follis (K), thirty-three (Lambda Gamma), and 40 = Follis (M). Then the AR siliqua types continue upwards from there. The obverse portraits also have some interesting variations such as this decanummium of Justinian from Carthage with a christogram on the breast:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]494433[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s supposedly a matching follis for this type but I&#039;ve never seen it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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