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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2534438, member: 56859&quot;]Doug, I don&#039;t have Sear Byzantine and am confused by your SB 1865.&nbsp; The online resources I&#039;ve checked (Wildwinds, CNG&#039;s archives) show SB 1865 as a silver coin and SB 1866 as a follis like yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>Are there different editions of Sear Byz, and did the numbers change?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one I have down as SB 1866.&nbsp; Peek-a-boo Jesus overstrike.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_430ca2e0cd534e848a7ef3cea57e61e8.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_511,al_c,q_90/ae43f8_430ca2e0cd534e848a7ef3cea57e61e8.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Romanus IV Diogenes</b></p><p>CE 1068-1071</p><p>AE follis, 10.57 gm</p><p>Constantinople</p><p>Obv: IC-XC over NI-KA to left and right of bust of Christ facing, dotted cross behind head, wearing pallium and colobium, holding book of Gospels with both hands</p><p>Rev: C-R P-Δ in the four angles of a cross with globe and two dots at each extremity, X in the centre.</p><p>Ref: Sear 1866, DO-8</p><p><br /></p><p>Melting into SB 1867 (coin from CNG&#039;s archives)-- looks like this could be the undertype?&nbsp; It would be better if I slowed down the gif but the original is on some old external drive and I can&#039;t find it at the moment.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/jcos1867-gif.288544/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Clearly there is much I don&#039;t know about Byzantines.&nbsp; If these coins (SB 1866 and 1867) were struck during Romanus IV&#039;s brief reign, why would the undertype be a coin which was so recently struck?&nbsp; Maybe the undertype isn&#039;t SB 1867, or maybe I don&#039;t understand when these were struck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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