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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2614278, member: 44316&quot;]I have a site on Byzantine coins of the Cherson mint in Crimea (the north part of the Black Sea).</p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/Cherson/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/Cherson/" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/Cherson/</a></p><p>Nothing much had changed since 2012 until today. I added a number of rare 5th century coins including this one:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]572550[/ATTACH] </p><p>Theodosius II, 402-450. 22-21 mm.</p><p>RIC X 460 &quot;R3&quot; (extremely rare) &quot;? 437&quot;</p><p>Two emperors standing on either side of long cross</p><p>CONCORDIA AGV [sic]</p><p>CONS in exergue, suggesting the mint of Constantinople, but these coins are found only near Cherson. If they were minted in Constantinople, the whole output was immediately shipped to Crimea.</p><p><br /></p><p>When RIC X was published in 1994 scholars from western Europe knew very little about these types which are from behind the Iron Curtain. The RIC rarities &quot;R3&quot; and &quot;R4&quot; mean only a few examples were known to Kent. Now the number of known examples has exploded, but both types are still rare in conditions as good as these.</p><p><br /></p><p>The page has a &quot;What&#039;s New?&quot; line near the top and you can see new coins of Leo I, Theodosius II, Valentinian III, and city coins from Cherson before it became an imperial mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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