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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1989636, member: 19463&quot;][ATTACH=full]356004[/ATTACH] </p><p>The very first coins of Anastasius were like those of his predecessors or even worse.&nbsp; The one above is 0.46g or roughly 1/40 the weight of the large M coins or 1/20 the OP coin.&nbsp; The idea of not having to have a bagful of these little scraps seems really great.&nbsp; Thanks, Anastasius.&nbsp; I do not have one but there are also post reform one nummus coins for Justinian that bear a large A (A=1) but the pre-reform issues of Anastasius had his monogram as we saw on coins of his predecessors.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There are very rare ones of these with at least a few letters of obverse legend.&nbsp; Mine is normal but I just realized the reverse is shown upside down.&nbsp; Learn something every day![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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