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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Voulgaroktonou, post: 3073717, member: 84047&quot;]Thank you for sharing a well written and informative write up! It&#039;s great to read Byzantine themed posts, of which there have been several lately. I also was watching the last CNG auction for those stavrata and I conveniently forgot about it until Thursday! I love the coinage of the Palaeologan dynasty, although most of my numismatic friends question my taste for them...And little wonder, I will sheepishly admit. Just before DOC V was published, I was honored to be invited by Dumbarton Oaks to a party to view the page proofs and to celebrate Grierson&#039;s finishing the DOC set. One of the attendees mentioned to Grierson that indeed the 14th c. copper coins display an astonishing variety of types, but he wondered how anyone could stand to look at them! Well, I like them! But I really love the stavrata. I find them hauntingly beautiful, and as a last expression of &quot;ancient&quot; Hellenism, in their weight, heavier than any previous Byzantine silver coin, almost a revival of the early Greek didrachm. Here are a few of mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>John V, 1379-91</p><p>Sear 2510; DO 1266-77</p><p>8.03 gr. Stavraton</p><p>[ATTACH=full]772700[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Manuel II, 1391-95</p><p>Sear 2548; DO 1308-09</p><p>7.94 gr. Stavraton</p><p>[ATTACH=full]772703[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Manuel II, 1391-95</p><p>Sear 2550; DO 1312</p><p>3.43 gr. Half Stavraton</p><p>[ATTACH=full]772705[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>John VII, 1399-1403</p><p>Sear 2562; DO 1334-5 var.</p><p>3.65 gr. Half Stavraton</p><p>[ATTACH=full]772706[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>John VIII, 1425-48</p><p>Sear 2564; DO 1636-8 var.</p><p>7.09 gr. Stavraton</p><p>[ATTACH=full]772708[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine XI, 1449-1453</p><p>Sear -; Bendall 129 (this coin)</p><p>0.63 gr. 1/8 Stavraton</p><p>[ATTACH=full]772711[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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