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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Quant.Geek, post: 2840539, member: 74799&quot;]Dups, you betcha!&nbsp; It is sometimes difficult to get the quality you are looking for, so in the meantime, you pick up a lesser one until you find your sleeping beauty:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Byzantine Empire: Leo VI the Wise (886-912) Æ Follis, Constantinople (Sear-1729)</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Obv.: +LEON bASILEVS ROM; crowned bust facing with short beard, wearing chlamys, holding akakia.</p><p>Rev.: +LEON / EN QEO bA / SILEVS R / OMEON</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/36484/normal_Sear-1729%281%29.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/36484/normal_Sear-1729%282%29.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/36484/Sear-1729.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Byzantine Empire: Leo V the Armenian (813-820) Æ Follis, Syracuse (Sear-1636; DOC 17; Berk-887)</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Obv: [Λ] - E/O Facing bust of Leo, with short beard, wearing crown and loros, and holding cross potent; in right field, star</p><p>Rev: [K] - ONST Facing bust of Constantine, beardless, wearing crown and chlamys, and holding globus cruciger; C - I on either side of head</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/36484/normal_Sear-1636c.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/36484/normal_Sear-1636.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/36484/normal_Sear-1636a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Byzantine Empire: Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus (1195-1203) BI Aspron Trachy Nomisma, Constantinople (Sear-2011; DOC 3a)</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Obv: Beardless, nimbate bust of Christ, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in left hand. Pellet, or pellets, normally in each limb of nimbus cross. IC XC in field</p><p>Rev: Full-length figure of Alexius on left and of St. Constantine nimbate, holding between them globus cruciger. Emperor and saint wear stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; both hold labarum-headed scepter.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/36484/normal_Sear-2011.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/36484/normal_Sear-2011%281%29.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/36484/normal_Sear-2012.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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