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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 2904347, member: 84744&quot;]Decanummium from Catania is right!&nbsp; Actually also Heraclius like the CNG example, SB 885, though a year earlier: year 12, 621-2. (Not obvious from my photo, which does not do the coin justice.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]700244[/ATTACH] </p><p>I don&#039;t have anything from this mint, and only one other Heraclius, so this will be a keeper.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the best hidden stuff also turned out to be Byzantine:</p><p><br /></p><p>Justinian I pentanummium, Carthage mint, issued 539-543 (SB 274), quite scarce:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]700251[/ATTACH] </p><p>Maurice Tiberius decanummium, Antioch year 5 (586-7), SB 536:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]700256[/ATTACH] </p><p>(The legend looks more like Tiberius II Constantine, but apparently the crown style is diagnostic of Maurice.&nbsp; Legend sloppiness is typical of Byzantine bronze.)</p><p><br /></p><p>This well-struck dynastic follis of Constans II, Syracuse (SB 1110):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]700262[/ATTACH] </p><p>One of my favourites in the whole lot, visible but unidentifiable in the group shot, is this Syracusan follis of Constantine IV (SB 1207).&nbsp; Great detail on this coin, e.g. the monogram above the M:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]700263[/ATTACH] </p><p>Leo III follis, Constantinople (SB 1516):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]700264[/ATTACH] </p><p>I&#039;ll be keeping all of the above, as they are good quality for Byzantine bronze.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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