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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 7941362, member: 56653&quot;]Yours looks like the larger module to this 18x16mm 1.19g (clipped) specimen:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1374639[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If it wasn&#039;t for Eleni Lianta&#039;s reference there, I would have thought that it&#039;s a coinage of 1240s Thessalonica Series III (spanning Ioannes and Demetrios of the Komnenodoukai and after). Now that I see your specimen I also see the obvious stylistic similarities with the &#039;religious types&#039; -- Hendy types P, R, S, T and Metcalf/Grierson type U of &#039;Constantinople&#039;. At least I came spot on or very close to it chronologically.</p><p><br /></p><p>This could also continue the discussion about the origin of Thessalonica Series III and a possible connection to &#039;Latin&#039; (&#039;Venetian&#039;) mintings also somewhere between Thessalonica and Constantinople ca. +/-1240.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then there&#039;s the interesting possible reverse legend [Π/P/φ/P]Γ/...[HH/T]OC or similar -- that can be interpreted from the three and a half letters on your reverse and one an some on mine, possibly alluding to Baldwin II, who was in fact &#039;born in the purple&#039;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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