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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 3275662, member: 95174&quot;]The problem continued for some time , my collection is 800 years later and the smallest denomination always lacks written conformation on how they were used.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few years back a catalog dealing with 12th century Eastern Roman coinage tried confirm denominations with die sizes, it does work but with issues. One of the Authors Val rushed his work and did not seem to have enough examples to check. He passed away from Cancer shortly after publishing.</p><p><br /></p><p>I pursued the die size theory and found he missed some of the sizes. The coins of Alexius Comnenus&nbsp; and his son John II were spot on but the weights varied greatly, in some cases the same denomination went from 1gm to 6gm.</p><p>Rulers after that, Manuel, Andronicus and Isaac II had three die sizes for the same type of coin, 18mm, 15mm and 12mm. Most of the catalogs have the denomination broken into two sizes , the reason was the author of work that wrote the basis of the Alexius reform suspected their was multiple denominations but was unable to prove it, so the coins were broken into two average weights.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not to overcomplicate the issue but after I found the three sizes I was curious if they co circulated or were just debased coins. Since tetartera hoards are extremely rare we are really just left with the coins themselves to answer the problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin Manuel SBCV-1980 [ATTACH=full]864935[/ATTACH] adds to my argument they were cocirculating and were different denominations. This coin has two different die sizes be used. 15mm and 12mm&nbsp; and I have seen other mismatched dies. Not many only one or two others.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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