I have a page of $5-$15 ancient coins: http://augustuscoins.com/inexpensive.html Today I put 17 Byzantine coins on it. I deleted many that had sold (every time I announce changes many sell, but they are not automatically deleted). Most of the others are late Roman AE. I reduced prices on the nice Byzantine coins on my "Byzantine" page: http://augustuscoins.com/Byzantine.html and reorganized it. I put two great rarities on it at the top: Cherson mint. Rare type and much rarer countermark. Time of Maurice (or Justin II-Phocas) It is Sear 605 (nimbate) with countermark of Heraclius (Sear monogram 32) 32-30 mm. 10.55 grams. It has no tooling (many of the type do). Sokolova VI.2 has this countermark on this type, also in almost this position. The DO example of Heraclius 311 has this countermark. This coin with the countermark is very rare. Searching acsearch under "Cherson countermark" brings up no Byzantine coins. [$345 SOLD +$7 shipping in the US, $3 more elsewhere] It is from the mint of Cherson in Crimea in the north Black Sea and is the half-follis with a large delta (the half of the follis with a large H) for 4-pentanummia = 20 nummia = a half follis. 24-23 mm. 6.51 grams. Two figures standing, XEP-CONOC around ("of Cherson") Figure with long cross-rho, to the right a large delta, Δ. Sear 610 under Maurice, 582-602. Maurice issued an almost identical type with his own legend, so Grierson thought this type was also of Maurice. Anokhin, followed by Hahn, decided to attribute them to Justin II, Tiberius II, and Phocas, three emperors surrounding Maurice. I think that the Maurice attribution is still the most supported by reasons. Most of these are seriously corroded and quite tooled (See the only one on vcoins. There are none on MA-Shops). This one is not. It is better than most published examples. [A high-quality example of a famous rarity worthy of a fine collection. Remarkably nice. $375 SOLD +$7 shipping in the US] If you don't want $15 coins and you don't want $345 coins, consider my other pages: http://augustuscoins.com/Constantinian.html (reorganized and some prices reduced) http://augustuscoins.com/index.html
