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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikjo0, post: 207911, member: 3565&quot;]I was feeling extravagant today so I picked up this little coin that I&#039;ve had my eye on for a while.</p><p>It&#039;s a &quot;tremissis&quot; or 1/3 of a &quot;solidus&quot;,the standard gold coin of the time.It was minted at Constantinople.</p><p>The strike is fairly good and well centered which can often be a problem with Byzantine gold coins.</p><p>It is listed on Wildwinds as sb0008 (Sear Byzantine #8)</p><p><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/bigpic.cgi?img=coins/./sb/sb0008.jpg&amp;ruler=./sb/i.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/bigpic.cgi?img=coins/./sb/sb0008.jpg&amp;ruler=./sb/i.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/bigpic.cgi?img=coins/./sb/sb0008.jpg&amp;ruler=./sb/i.html</a></p><p>I&#039;m guessing that he was the first Byzantine emperor to strike gold coins since he is the first listed in David Sear&#039;s book.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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