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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1627902, member: 19463&quot;]Sometimes we forget that the Byzantines considered the weight of their base metal coins important.&nbsp; They could have melted down old heavy coins but instead they cut flans until they were the new standard weight.&nbsp; There are some issues struck on what appears to be a quarter of an old coin showing two flat sides and one rounded arc.&nbsp;&nbsp; One could make an interesting specialty collection out of coins overstruck on recognizable undertypes.&nbsp; In some issues it is rare to find a coin that is not overstruck and not trimmed.&nbsp; I wonder what they did with all those little scraps since I don&#039;t see enough newly cast flans to account for all that metal.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]232098.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Focas year 4 from Constantinople on cut down Maurice Tiberius year 16? also from Constantinople[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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