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Message:: [QUOTE="Quant.Geek, post: 3902940, member: 74799"]A lot of the questions can be answered by the meaning of the legends which is where most of the confusion comes from. What used to be ANNO with the corresponding regal year was changed by Constans II.  In reality, most of the catalogs have the legends incorrect for Constans II.  The typical A/N/A and N/Є/O/ς is actually a single word - ANANЄOCIC which is "renew" or "renewal" in Greek.  The idea was the Constans II would bring about a new era similar to his namesake of Constantine (more on that later). Unfortunately, the new legend proved difficult for the die setters since they also needed to add the value mark, officina and the regal year and thus several attempts were made to abbreviate.  Among them was the various ligatures for CIC (again, more on that later). So, to answer your question, no this is not an Arab-Byzantine coin, but an actual Byzantine coin that was minted during RY 3.  You can see that in the OP coin as well as several other coins that got re-struck. As to whether it was minted in Constantinople or another mint, that is still up in the air. Finally, the type was copied over in the Sicilian mint using a similar pattern: [ATTACH=full]1028648[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]