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<p>[QUOTE="BenSi, post: 7965912, member: 95174"]This is an interesting denomination, the DOC collection has a specimen above 7gm, my own collection I have several past 5 gm</p><p>The denomination has a waring saint, St George, like the pre Byzantine period messages were sent via the coinage, instead of Gods they replaced the message to be sent with Saints. as for waring saints two were used during this century. St George and St Demetrius.</p><p><br /></p><p> Manuel as [USER=87200]@ancient coin hunter[/USER] pointed out had his fame, his is the most common of 12th century coinage because of his long reign and the changes in the economy, money was replacing goods as wealth. He did lower the standards of the coinage again. It was the beginning of the decline of the Alexius coin reform.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one of my first , the reverse (not shown) in not as nice but the obverse is one I gazed at many times. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1381170[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And here is my most complete example. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1381173[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And the half sized version. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1381175[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Their is an even smaller one but I do not have a photo handy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BenSi, post: 7965912, member: 95174"]This is an interesting denomination, the DOC collection has a specimen above 7gm, my own collection I have several past 5 gm The denomination has a waring saint, St George, like the pre Byzantine period messages were sent via the coinage, instead of Gods they replaced the message to be sent with Saints. as for waring saints two were used during this century. St George and St Demetrius. Manuel as [USER=87200]@ancient coin hunter[/USER] pointed out had his fame, his is the most common of 12th century coinage because of his long reign and the changes in the economy, money was replacing goods as wealth. He did lower the standards of the coinage again. It was the beginning of the decline of the Alexius coin reform. Here is one of my first , the reverse (not shown) in not as nice but the obverse is one I gazed at many times. [ATTACH=full]1381170[/ATTACH] And here is my most complete example. [ATTACH=full]1381173[/ATTACH] And the half sized version. [ATTACH=full]1381175[/ATTACH] Their is an even smaller one but I do not have a photo handy.[/QUOTE]
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