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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1628016, member: 26302&quot;]That one is not cut, but the Byzantines and the Arab Byzantine definitely used cut coins. In fact, in the late 7th/early 8th centuries they used old large Byzantine coins and quartered them, striking 4 new coins from the old coins. I have many pie shaped coins that you can see the old design under the new. </p><p><br /></p><p>In antiquity, especially in more rural areas, cutting a coin in half was not really considered unusual. Egypt did not really &quot;get&quot; coins when they first started. Imported Athenian tets are frequently found in Egypt cut up, since the Egyptians simply viewed coins as pre weighed bullion, and cut them to make change all of the time. Not until Alexander and Ptolemy started minting &quot;Egyptian&quot; coins did they start to understand its probably better just to make change traditionally, with multiple denominations of coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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