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Message:: [QUOTE="BenSi, post: 3951251, member: 95174"]The road less traveled. I started with roman Imperial coin, when I decided I hit my apex for collecting women on Roman coins I descided on a change. I bought group lots and attibuted the coins, I had a well rounded library of David Sears works.  I found one coin that caught my attention and really stumped me. The internet was fairly new for collectors so no help there. ( Yahoo groups became a go to shortly after.) It took two weeks but I got it. I loved the puzzle and durring the search I feel in love with the coin. The coin was a  Manuel tetarteron , a small copper that was used through out Greece in the 12th century Byzantine empire. It was used for everyday tranactions so all people  rich and poor were familiar and used it in their daily lives. The more of these coins I collected the more I learned, they were Byzantine copper so they sold cheaply and very little had been written about them.Most people were intersted in the gold issues, little circulation so manyof those issues are in excellent condition. The copper coins remained in circulation and did so until they were worn to nothing.   20 years later I have crossed that line from collector to more of an academic interest. How many denomnations were they? Right now three are acceted in academic world and only  two in the coin world. I now believe they were four . Bottom line, it is an uncharted part of the coin world and I hope my collection makes a difference for the next generations of collect. Here is an example of a coin that technically is not listed. The large version has a 18mm ring diameter, the half a 15mm but this little fellow has a 12mm ring diameter. [ATTACH=full]1041093[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

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