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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 25698217, member: 128351"]Overstriking copper folles was very common, especially for the "anonymous classes". I don't think it was a matter of emperors' ego : the anonymous folles don't have any image or name of emperors. It was just a question of lazyness : no need to melt old worn coins and make new flans, they were just overstruck, like a bored policeman at the airport who prints his stamp over older stamps on a passport.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1643068[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">Constans II, Constantinople (641-668)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anonymous classes : </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1643065[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1643066[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1643067[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1643069[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">Alexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118. Tetarteron</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 25698217, member: 128351"]Overstriking copper folles was very common, especially for the "anonymous classes". I don't think it was a matter of emperors' ego : the anonymous folles don't have any image or name of emperors. It was just a question of lazyness : no need to melt old worn coins and make new flans, they were just overstruck, like a bored policeman at the airport who prints his stamp over older stamps on a passport. [CENTER][ATTACH=full]1643068[/ATTACH] Constans II, Constantinople (641-668)[/CENTER] Anonymous classes : [ATTACH=full]1643065[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1643066[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1643067[/ATTACH] [CENTER][ATTACH=full]1643069[/ATTACH] Alexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118. Tetarteron[/CENTER][/QUOTE]
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