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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 3439458, member: 95174&quot;]@<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/aussiecollector.81093/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/aussiecollector.81093/">AussieCollector</a> Be very cautious of 11th century Byzantine coinage, that was the reason for the coin reform (1092) and the birth of the Hyperpyron, the coinage of Alexius after the reform brought order back to the gold coinage, the stuff before the reform was inconstantly bad, some worse than others. I was just reading the headaches it caused for taxes , they were raised dramatically for people paying in the old coinage.</p><p>The reign of Alexius and his son John II kept the purity of the coins high, then Manuel Comnenus started lowering it again,. One interesting thing about the market is Manuel&#039;s coins are commanding higher prices than his father and grandfather but he issued much more coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not an expert in the gold coins , I am just sharing what I have learned in the past year trying to finish my collections of the Comnenus Alexius I to Manuel.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am missing the Thessalonica Hyperpyron issues for him but I have the rest, his coins are available on the market at reasonable prices.&nbsp; Funny thing is I started this collection from the bottom, the copper coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my John II collection on Forum.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=6945" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=6945" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=6945</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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