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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 3052196, member: 80804&quot;]I&#039;m not too sure what happened to the 1st instance of this I posted (I wasn&#039;t signed-in at the time - when I signed-in, it apparently disappeared) so I apologize if it&#039;s a duplicate - however I did add another photo to this version:</p><p>This Alexius I in a very silvery-colored billon is perhaps the most visually striking (among the billon specimens - not counting gold or electrum) I have:</p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album132/13_Alexius_I.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><a href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album132/13_Alexius_I?full=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album132/13_Alexius_I?full=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album132/13_Alexius_I?full=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Among the more typically billon-colored, and seldom well-struck trachys, this Manuel I has clear types on both faces as well as a significant legible portion in the reverse legend</p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album132/20_Manuel_I.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><a href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album132/20_Manuel_I?full=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album132/20_Manuel_I?full=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album132/20_Manuel_I?full=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>But I find this among the most interesting - an officially clipped Andronicus I trachy which was cut-down and circulated in Bulgaria:<img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album132/B02_Bulgarian_imit_scyphate.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><a href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album132/B02_Bulgarian_imit_scyphate?full=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album132/B02_Bulgarian_imit_scyphate?full=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album132/B02_Bulgarian_imit_scyphate?full=1</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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