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<p>[QUOTE="BenSi, post: 3439516, member: 95174"]Good question, I do not know exactly when things went bad but I do know that when the Hyperpyron came out it became a new standard and respected by the surrounding country's. It became the standard for a few hundred years. I will do a little more reading to give you a precise answer. </p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, the hardest coins to acquire in that collection were not gold or electrum. Billion Trachy SBCV-1943 and the tetarteron SBCV-1953v , it is not listed in Sear or Greirson but it is in DOC IV 15.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BenSi, post: 3439516, member: 95174"]Good question, I do not know exactly when things went bad but I do know that when the Hyperpyron came out it became a new standard and respected by the surrounding country's. It became the standard for a few hundred years. I will do a little more reading to give you a precise answer. BTW, the hardest coins to acquire in that collection were not gold or electrum. Billion Trachy SBCV-1943 and the tetarteron SBCV-1953v , it is not listed in Sear or Greirson but it is in DOC IV 15.[/QUOTE]
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