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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1990250, member: 26302&quot;]Here is an article on these at NumisWiki:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=anonymous%20follis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=anonymous%20follis" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=anonymous follis</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The coin I wanted out of this group for an upgrade was the Class F on the left side, (upside down). If you search for these, you will find almost all are overstruck or in horrible shape. Of all of the anonymous classes, (except L, M, N which are to this day debated), F, H, and J are the hardest to find. Of these, I have found F to be the toughest to find a clean, non-overstruck copy in decent shape. I was lucky years ago I got nice H and J&#039;s, but my two examples of Class F are actually worst than the coin on Numiswiki.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a quick background to these, Anonymous follis were called that since they never named the emperor. The ruler ascended the throne, and picked his favorite depiction of Christ from a famous church. So, all of these depictions are famous scenes of Christ from churches around the empire, most of which has since been lost. Because of that, this series has also been studied by art scholars trying to learn what certain pieces of artwork looked like.&nbsp; Like numiswiki says, they were the predominant currency of everyday transactions for a couple of centuries, (think modern day quarters), so circulated extensively. As such, high grade examples showing details of Christ&#039;s face are pretty scarce. You can buy these for $20-30 in F condition many times, but coins like the one on top here you cannot find for that price. If that coin were a tad better, (little fuller on the face and edges of the coin), and that coin is a $300 plus coin. So, like I said, I won&#039;t toss it out, but the real reason I wanted the lot was for the very nice, (for the type), class F.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, due to our neo-communistic leaders in MN these have to ship to my sister, so it will be a while before I get to see them. I do promise to take pics of them when I do get my hands on them though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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