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<p>[QUOTE="Only a Poor Old Man, post: 5295419, member: 111037"]Wow [USER=84047]@Voulgaroktonou[/USER] , your post is a prime example of what an awesome place this forum is. You can't buy that kind of knowledge, a treasure of experience accumulated by painstaking research over the years available to us by a simple click of a button. We need a standing ovation smilie <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Also I feel like a fool thinking I was 'done' with Anastasius by getting a follis and a half-follis. Your collection shows that the collecting possibilities are endless, and we hardly even touched the gold ones. I wonder if the coins of the various reforms were simultaneously in circulation. It must have been quite confusing for people to have same denominations of various weights in their pockets.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I can't possibly understand why they didn't like those gorgeous coins. Was that conclusion reached by scholars simply because they are scarce? Maybe they were special commemorative editions or something? Or maybe people liked them so much that they started collecting them instead of spending them, so the state decided to drop them! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Only a Poor Old Man, post: 5295419, member: 111037"]Wow [USER=84047]@Voulgaroktonou[/USER] , your post is a prime example of what an awesome place this forum is. You can't buy that kind of knowledge, a treasure of experience accumulated by painstaking research over the years available to us by a simple click of a button. We need a standing ovation smilie :happy:. Also I feel like a fool thinking I was 'done' with Anastasius by getting a follis and a half-follis. Your collection shows that the collecting possibilities are endless, and we hardly even touched the gold ones. I wonder if the coins of the various reforms were simultaneously in circulation. It must have been quite confusing for people to have same denominations of various weights in their pockets. I can't possibly understand why they didn't like those gorgeous coins. Was that conclusion reached by scholars simply because they are scarce? Maybe they were special commemorative editions or something? Or maybe people liked them so much that they started collecting them instead of spending them, so the state decided to drop them! :facepalm:[/QUOTE]
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