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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Voulgaroktonou, post: 4528073, member: 84047&quot;]I&#039;m putting off yard work, so I will throw in my 1.75 folles&#039; worth of Anastasii– all from Constantinople. The first, from the second phase of the initial coinage reform of 507-12, which included the addition of privy marks and officinae numbers. 13.19 gr. 26.7 mm. 6 hr. Its heavy weight of 13.19 gr. is unusual for this series, which averages between 8-9 gr. It has had 8 notches filed in antiquity from the obverse rim and 9 from the reverse. This may have been to convert it to a weight of 3 nomismata. For similar coins converted to weights by this method, see K. Weber: “Late antiquity weights. The second life of late and late antiquity coins”, in Mass und Gewicht 16 (2014), # 14, p. 161.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second and third I have shown before; apologies for trotting them out again, but they are at least topical, and I love them. The second, Anastasius I. Constantinople. 512-17. Half follis. 9.62 gr. 24.5 mm. hr. 8. Sear 25A; Hahn 20a (this coin). Ex Vecchi 8, Dec. 4, 1997, lot 401. Published in The Celator, April 1999, “A Pair of holed rarities”. When the weights of the follis and its fractions were doubled in 512, the mint evidently considered that the increased size of the flans would allow for a figural reverse type, here a seated representation of Constantinople holding a globus cruciger. Examples exist for the type on the follis, its half, and quarter, but it evidently did not give satisfaction, and specimens are extremely rare today. I will not live long enough (or be able to afford) a follis, should one come on the market, so I will be content with that line from Meatloaf, “Two out of three ain&#039;t bad.”</p><p><br /></p><p>The third, Anastasius I. Constantinople. 512-17. Decanummium. 4.30 gr. 20 mm. hr. 6. Sear 28A; Hahn 21. Triton XV, lot 1573.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1121548[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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