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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24605903, member: 26430&quot;]That is a very nice obverse for a Justin II &amp; Sophia Follis! I think all of mine (at least in recent memory) came in group lots, and are of pretty average circulated condition. Some are in the &quot;unfortunate-to-dreadful&quot; range (I suspect that&#039;s actually what NGC would put on some of their labels if graded).</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have one that is from the NIKO mint (and <i>Officina</i> B), like the OP coin, but it was struck 6 years later:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1563561[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Part of what makes Byzantine Folles satisfying is that are pretty substantial coins (as H.J. Berk put it, they&#039;re the &quot;Eastern Roman Successors of the Sestertius&quot;!).</p><p><br /></p><p>Like the previous two posted (at 29mm/14g &amp; 31.4mm/11.83g), mine is a hefty bronze: 30 x 27mm, 11.97g, 6h.</p><p><br /></p><p>What&#039;s really fun is to line up as many Byzantine Folles together as possible. Of course, there was the brief blip of extremely large Justinian Folles (struck in&nbsp; his Regnal Years 12-15) which dwarf all others.</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is a photo, to scale, showing this one alongside a few examples from the preceding and succeeding reigns, including a massive 45mm Year 12 Justinian (I got these ones together in the same <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6409860" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6409860" rel="nofollow">group lot from Kolner Auktion 112</a>):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1563609[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>To my amazement, the other one in that group (in &quot;unfortunate&quot; condition) had virtually identical measurements, but from a different year (6) and mint (CON): 30 x 27mm, 11.98g, 6h!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]1563610[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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