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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herberto, post: 3549201, member: 74222&quot;]Some questions if one knows the answer:</p><p><br /></p><p>How do we, or David Sear, know(s) that a smaller and thicker Hyperpyron mean it is minted in Thessalonica?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A similiar example:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]943143[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]943144[/ATTACH] </p><p>Both the aboves are solidus and both weight 4,42 gram, but David Sear says that 22 mm is Constantinople-minted, while the second one is 12 mm and from Carthage.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder how he reached to that conclusion?</p><p><br /></p><p>Some months ago I read that an Israeli archaeologist claimed Heraclius brought the Constantinople-diet in Jerusalem and struck many of his Solidis there to pay his troops due to the war with the Persians.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]943145[/ATTACH] </p><p>The above is Maurice Tiberius, a so-called Solidus of 22 Siliquae. It is 4,12gram and 21mm. Sear 529.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note the unsual exergue: &quot;OB+*&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>David Sear claims that it is minted in Antioch. But I don&#039;t know how he concludes it. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And here:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]943146[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is a very common anonymous follis. It circulated in the 11th century where the Byzantines had taken Antiochia already in the previous century. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the 500s the Byzantines tend to struck many many many coins in Antiochia/Theupolis. - Why should this anonymous follis not be struck also in Antiochia? - Why do all numismatics assume it was only struck in Constantinople?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I thank anyone who can provide a respond.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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