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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3916262, member: 85693&quot;]My local dealer sometimes throws Byzantines in his junk box - I went shopping on Black Friday and got these three for $4 each:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1032218[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Anonymous Class A2</b></p><p><b>Basil II &amp; Constantine VIII</b></p><p><b>(976-1028 A.D.)</b></p><p>EMMANOVHL, Christ facing w. nimbus, holding Gospels \ IC-XC / +IhSuS / XRISTUS / bASILEu / bASILE / ornaments above &amp; below.</p><p>Sear 1813; (type 29).</p><p>(8.02 grams / 26 x 29 mm)</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Byzantine Empire&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Æ Follis</b></p><p><b>Romanus IV Diogenes</b></p><p><b>(1068-1071 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Constantinople Mint</b></p><p>IC-XC over NI-KA flanking bust of Christ facing,&nbsp; / Cross with C-R / P-Δ in angles.</p><p>SB 1866; DOC III, part 2, 8.</p><p><b>Overstrike:</b>&nbsp; Unidentified Follis (?).</p><p>(6.97 grams / 27 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Maurice Tiberius </b></p><p><b>12 Nummi (Dodecanummium)</b></p><p><b>(582-602 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Alexandria Mint</b></p><p>Δ N MAV - (blundered ?), diademed, and draped bust right / Large I-B, cross between, AΛΕΞ in exergue. </p><p>SB 544; DOC 213</p><p>(4.55 grams / 15 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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