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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 3338787, member: 95174&quot;]I get excited when I find another gem for my collection as we know we all do.</p><p>This one would have got a very good price from one of the major auction houses but I found it on ebay for less than $10.00&nbsp; The coin in hand is one of the best I have seen anywhere, keep in mind this is a fraction of a tetarteron so it is very small 18mm at it largest points, the die size is 14mm, my earlier example in my collection was nice but this takes the cake.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know tetartera is not a popular collecting topic but I really appreciate this forums enthusiasm in letting us share our newest treasures</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]884346[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><b>1143-1180AD </b>MANUEL AE HALF TETARTERON S-1980 DOC IV 23&nbsp;&nbsp; </b></p><p><br /></p><p>OBV Bust of St. George, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic, breastplate, and Saigon; holds in r. hand spear, and in l. shield.</p><p><br /></p><p>REV Bust of emperor, bearded, wearing stemma, divitision, collar piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum headed scepter, and in l. Globus cruciger.</p><p><br /></p><p>Size 18 mm</p><p><br /></p><p>Weight 2.4gm</p><p><br /></p><p>The main reason that tetartera in this condition are so hard to find is they remained in circulation, I have never seen a tetarteron overstruck ( Alexius I tetartera were overstruck on anonymous follis parts) , they just remained in circulation important to the local economies, in fact they were important enough to be imitated many decades after the rulers death.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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