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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 4890653, member: 95174&quot;]The Anonymous follis series gets smaller, much smaller as time goes on. I think the reason for overstrikes was to keep the currency current and official. The overstrikes were created along with the lower weighted newly minted coins to create an acceptance of the coin regardless of weight. ( My opinion.) </p><p><br /></p><p>However, this page alone shows several Class B coins , the heaviest starts at 15gm goin down to 10gm so it wasn&#039;t a change in weights that made the change in design, the weight change seemed to have happened gradually as copper did become sparse, the later follis denomination&nbsp; weighed 5gm. By the end of the 11th century copper was in a complete shortage. The problem had become so serious Alexius I Comnenus melted down town statues to make coin, he created the smaller coins, tetarteron to replace the follis but they were not of equal value ( The rarer Constantinople issues contained a small amount of silver they were thought to be equal to the follis from the past see my post above SBCV-1920).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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