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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Milesofwho, post: 3090511, member: 91469&quot;]I concur with that. When I was at Baldwin’s over the summer of last year, they had about ten Andronicus hyperpyrons, but no Michael VIII ones.</p><p>The Byzantine solidi lost their status as a universal trade coin when the debasement started. The grosso was first issued under Doge Enrico Dandolo, in the run-up to the Fourth Crusade. It had the purest silver percentage possible (98.5) at the time of its inception. It quickly became a trade coin. Serbian coins also copied the grosso. Later on, the supposed reason a 1/4 stavraton was not issued was that the grosso filled that void.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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