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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 7620465, member: 44316&quot;]A friend of mine collected the &quot;Cross above head&quot; early Byzantine varieties for many years. I studied them and put them on the web for him:</p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ByzCross/Cross-above-head.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ByzCross/Cross-above-head.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ByzCross/Cross-above-head.html</a></p><p>There is a great deal of information about them at that site, which has more illustrations than all the reference books put together.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sear 84 and Sear 100 are the most common types with crosses above the head:</p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ByzCross/Justin.html#Nicomedia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ByzCross/Justin.html#Nicomedia" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ByzCross/Justin.html#Nicomedia</a></p><p>The collection has been disbursed. Some went to Dumbarton Oaks, some to the ANS, and the rest sold.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my favorite:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1311361[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Justin I, 518-527. 34-32 mm. 17.08 grams.</p><p>Sear 100, unlisted variety.</p><p>It has a bold cross above the head, which is uncommon but not amazing. What is amazing is that there are <b>two</b> symbols above the M, both a cross, +, and a star, *. I don&#039;t think I have ever seen another Byzantine follis with two symbols there. I&#039;d love to see another one.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=85693]@Marsyas Mike[/USER] wrote, &quot; I&#039;d like to see that &quot;Manus Dei&quot; type.&quot;&nbsp; There is one on that page, Sear 85A.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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