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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Voulgaroktonou, post: 2754230, member: 84047&quot;]A good point you make about checking the pedigree of any coins offered as C. XI. All those I have seen offered since 1991 go back to this hoard. There was a fake [ATTACH=full]631520[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]631521[/ATTACH] offered in a European sale next week, and it has been pulled from the sale, I am happy to say. Yours is a nice John VIII. I have a fondness for these poorly struck, crudely engraved, but heavy stavrata, and buy any decent examples I can if the price is right. All too often, it is not. Most of the stavrata offered are those of John VIII, but occasionally the rarer John V examples also turn up. Attached are 2 of mine that show the stylistic differences between John V and John VIII.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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