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<p>[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 8359719, member: 75525"]I am looking at a Byzantine coin weight called a Tetarteron. They were to check the weight of reduced weight Solidi issued by Nicephorus II in 963-969 AD, see below. I can find a few examples of the weight online. I am concerned about the line going from about 5 on the bottom of the flan to about 10. The line / crack goes through O and T. Most of the weights I have seen are low grade and over cleaned. My best guess it is a die crack. What concerns me is that one or more of these could be cast fakes. </p><blockquote><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1311133" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1311133" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1311133</a> </p></blockquote><p>Any thoughts from Byzantine experts here?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1483785[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1483786[/ATTACH] </p><p>NICEPHORUS II. 963-969 AD. AV Tetarteron (4.08 gm). Constantinople mint. - Nicephorus introduced his reduced weight tetarteron alongside the normal histamenon (solidus) and created massive confusion among his people and later numismatists by keeping the same designs for each type. The present coin is one of the few we have handled that is clearly the smaller, rarer tetarteron, rather than a clipped histamenon. (CNG auction 5.21.2003)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 8359719, member: 75525"]I am looking at a Byzantine coin weight called a Tetarteron. They were to check the weight of reduced weight Solidi issued by Nicephorus II in 963-969 AD, see below. I can find a few examples of the weight online. I am concerned about the line going from about 5 on the bottom of the flan to about 10. The line / crack goes through O and T. Most of the weights I have seen are low grade and over cleaned. My best guess it is a die crack. What concerns me is that one or more of these could be cast fakes. [INDENT][URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1311133[/URL] [/INDENT] Any thoughts from Byzantine experts here? [ATTACH=full]1483785[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1483786[/ATTACH] NICEPHORUS II. 963-969 AD. AV Tetarteron (4.08 gm). Constantinople mint. - Nicephorus introduced his reduced weight tetarteron alongside the normal histamenon (solidus) and created massive confusion among his people and later numismatists by keeping the same designs for each type. The present coin is one of the few we have handled that is clearly the smaller, rarer tetarteron, rather than a clipped histamenon. (CNG auction 5.21.2003)[/QUOTE]
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