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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4187652, member: 19463&quot;]You might need to study up on the names most commonly used in the hobby when you go searching for coins of your emperors of choice.&nbsp; Tsimiskes is usually sold as John I.&nbsp; Phokas was a ruler a couple centuries earlier than John but the emperor immediately before John was Nikephoros II Phokas rarely using that last name but quite possibly the man you are considering.&nbsp; Byzantine history and coinage is a huge subject.&nbsp; Enjoy it. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is not to say that you can not collect them all.&nbsp; I have a half dozen major specialties and a very few coins from every other ancient category I could find and several medieval civilizations.&nbsp; It is not necessary to limit yourself since there is no such thing as a complete set.&nbsp; Most of us see something each week that we had previously never suspected to exist.&nbsp; We collect what we like -- coins that &#039;speak&#039; to us.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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