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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 3836743, member: 44210&quot;]Thanks [USER=95174]@BenSi[/USER] ! I can definitely see why; the portrait style on mine and similar ones seem pretty realistic compared to your typical Byzantine coins. It’s funny too, since Justinian’s Rome mint also produced folles towards the other end of the spectrum when it came to the quality of the style, as seen with this example from Wildwinds:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1019014[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Definitely more amateur in style than mine. Wonder if maybe the good engravers were killed/driven out by the fighting, and the Byzantines had to improvise with those with less experience. And/or possibly the Byzantines simply needed money quick to pay for the troops that took Rome, and as a result had to forgo good quality work. At least, until they had trained/found better engravers to make the higher-quality folles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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