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<p>[QUOTE="sand, post: 8070332, member: 118540"]Very nice, Al. Here are my top 3 favorites, in order of favorite-ness. All 3 of my favorites, happen to be gold.</p><p>1. The Byzantine Romanus IV gold 6-header. A beautiful coin, very valuable, and historically important, because of the Manzikert defeat.</p><p>2. The Eastern Roman Zeno gold. Another beautiful gold coin. I don't notice the effects of the flip over double strike, except maybe for a few extra, raised areas here and there, and some differences in the border. But I'm not very familiar with this coin type.</p><p>3. The Celtic Britain Cunobelin gold. A beautiful and interesting coin. It seems to have a lot of silver in it, which makes it look almost like an electrum coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are seller photos, of my Zeno bronze nummus. Someday, I'll take my own photos of it. It's another example, of how the late Roman bronze coins declined in size, design quality, flan quality, and strike quality, while the late Roman gold coins continued to look relatively good.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1399730[/ATTACH]</p><p>Zeno AE4 Nummus. Eastern Roman Empire. Second Reign. 476 AD To 491 AD. Constantinople Mint. RIC X 958. 10 mm. 1.26 grams. Obverse Zeno Bust Facing Right. Reverse Monogram.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="sand, post: 8070332, member: 118540"]Very nice, Al. Here are my top 3 favorites, in order of favorite-ness. All 3 of my favorites, happen to be gold. 1. The Byzantine Romanus IV gold 6-header. A beautiful coin, very valuable, and historically important, because of the Manzikert defeat. 2. The Eastern Roman Zeno gold. Another beautiful gold coin. I don't notice the effects of the flip over double strike, except maybe for a few extra, raised areas here and there, and some differences in the border. But I'm not very familiar with this coin type. 3. The Celtic Britain Cunobelin gold. A beautiful and interesting coin. It seems to have a lot of silver in it, which makes it look almost like an electrum coin. Here are seller photos, of my Zeno bronze nummus. Someday, I'll take my own photos of it. It's another example, of how the late Roman bronze coins declined in size, design quality, flan quality, and strike quality, while the late Roman gold coins continued to look relatively good. [ATTACH=full]1399730[/ATTACH] Zeno AE4 Nummus. Eastern Roman Empire. Second Reign. 476 AD To 491 AD. Constantinople Mint. RIC X 958. 10 mm. 1.26 grams. Obverse Zeno Bust Facing Right. Reverse Monogram.[/QUOTE]
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