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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 3072740, member: 95174&quot;]This a lot more confusing than these authors have made the problem, we are not sure how the old and new denominations worked together. Another point is trachea and tetartera&nbsp; did not co-exists except in the city of Constantinople, Tetartera were used in Western Greece and trachea was used in the east. The tetartera minted in Constantinople contained silver , not much 2-4 % , however, trachea had on a high of 8% , the tetartera minted regionally contained no silver. We now know due to letters mentioning the buying power of each they were tariffed differently, the one with silver was superior of course. I personally prefer Hendy&#039;s work on the Alexius coin reform, he was much more thorough.&nbsp; The DOC volumes have been posted, Volume IV has the details. Dumbarton Oakes has posted all 5 volumes making the work available to all for free. Here is the link to IV by Hendy.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.doaks.org/research/publications/books/catalogue-of-the-byzantine-coins-in-the-dumbarton-oaks-collection-and-in-the-whittemore-collection-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.doaks.org/research/publications/books/catalogue-of-the-byzantine-coins-in-the-dumbarton-oaks-collection-and-in-the-whittemore-collection-4" rel="nofollow">https://www.doaks.org/research/publications/books/catalogue-of-the-byzantine-coins-in-the-dumbarton-oaks-collection-and-in-the-whittemore-collection-4</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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