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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 8287349, member: 56653&quot;]There is a series of these that have no mark of minting authority and that Metcalf tied to the period of Ivan Asen II and his diplomatic overtures towards Rome, minted perhaps at Veroe between the 1230s and 1241, which is an interesting hypothesis that Balkan historian and numismatists seem to favor for two basic reasons: A. not much of stamena/trachea of these types are from Constantinople itself and B. they appear in Danubian and maritime Bulgaria and even north of Danube to the Dnieper, in places traditionally of interest to the Bulgarians, and less in Thracia and Northern Greece. </p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, what [USER=74799]@Quant.Geek[/USER] noticed about differences in iconography and a certain irregularity of styles, coupled with the dual modules (most if not all &quot;medium&quot; modules are actually cut large modules) might point to the theory of the &#039;Imperial mint&#039; vs the &#039;Public mint&#039; -- the latter being a &#039;Venetian&#039; operation for the Bulgarian trade. The latest support for this comes from Baker in Money and Coins in Medieval Greece 1200-1430 (pp. 1227-9). The <a href="http://glebecoins.net/paleos/Articles/Sequencing_the_Latin_Types/sequencing_the_latin_types.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://glebecoins.net/paleos/Articles/Sequencing_the_Latin_Types/sequencing_the_latin_types.html" rel="nofollow">sequence</a> provided by R. Glanfield seems to indicate around the mid 1230s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s Type P and Type R large modules:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1464463[/ATTACH] </p><p>Type P Christ and Archangel Michael</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1464465[/ATTACH]</p><p>Type R Christ and Virgin Orans[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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