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<p>[QUOTE="FitzNigel, post: 8199515, member: 74712"]So... Travaini appears to be an excellent study, but a badly organized catalogue (as best I can tell, as I am working with some rusty Italian). Images of coin types are provided on plates in the back, and they appear to be in chronological order, but the text itself covers coins by metal, then chronology (sometimes). The imitation anonymous folles I would then expect to be either with the section on copper/bronze coins, or in the section for the period before the Normans, but I cannot find any corresponding entries to the numbers in the images which appear to be the imitation folles (or perhaps they are images of legitimate Byzantine folles - I can't find the text, and am not knowledgable enough in the folles to know just by looking at them). So I am afraid I may be no help until I can actually read this book cover to cover.</p><p><br /></p><p>I took a look through MEC 14 for giggles, and it kind of looks like #78 attributed to Robert Guiscard - but the reverse doesn't match up perfectly, and neither does weight. But for an imitation, who knows what variables may exist?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="FitzNigel, post: 8199515, member: 74712"]So... Travaini appears to be an excellent study, but a badly organized catalogue (as best I can tell, as I am working with some rusty Italian). Images of coin types are provided on plates in the back, and they appear to be in chronological order, but the text itself covers coins by metal, then chronology (sometimes). The imitation anonymous folles I would then expect to be either with the section on copper/bronze coins, or in the section for the period before the Normans, but I cannot find any corresponding entries to the numbers in the images which appear to be the imitation folles (or perhaps they are images of legitimate Byzantine folles - I can't find the text, and am not knowledgable enough in the folles to know just by looking at them). So I am afraid I may be no help until I can actually read this book cover to cover. I took a look through MEC 14 for giggles, and it kind of looks like #78 attributed to Robert Guiscard - but the reverse doesn't match up perfectly, and neither does weight. But for an imitation, who knows what variables may exist?[/QUOTE]
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