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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 3441126, member: 95174&quot;]To start one of my favorite sources for coin info is Dumbarton Oakes Catalog. It was written 1992 but published in 1999. It has for the most part up to date info on the timer period. The best part is it is free now. Look at Page 37&nbsp; Volume I for info on coinage before the reform.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.doaks.org/research/publications/books/catalogue-of-the-byzantine-coins-in-the-dumbarton-oaks-collection-and-in-the-whittemore-collection-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.doaks.org/research/publications/books/catalogue-of-the-byzantine-coins-in-the-dumbarton-oaks-collection-and-in-the-whittemore-collection-4" rel="nofollow">https://www.doaks.org/research/publications/books/catalogue-of-the-byzantine-coins-in-the-dumbarton-oaks-collection-and-in-the-whittemore-collection-4</a></p><p><br /></p><p>it will give you generalized info on why the coin reform became necessary, ironically the half gold pieces Aspron Electrum coinage was the most controversial, people could not test easily how much gold the contained, designed to deceive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now you coin posted above is SBCV-1944 Billion Trachy, this is a more commonly found coin, they primarily circulated in Asia Minor and the capital but not in the Balkans. There are two types , you have type A, no mark on the shaft. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another example I have with the mark on shaft. Lot less silver than the one in my gallery but still pretty. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]913551[/ATTACH] </p><p>John the II had the most silver in his trachea, around 7%his son Manuel lowered it and Isaac II even further 2 to 3%.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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