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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 3339600, member: 95174&quot;]Going by the archeological findings, the most abundant coinage of the 12th century is tetartera and coinage of Manuel I is the most common.&nbsp; It is extremely rare to find any examples with full legends and nice centering, they were made too quickly too find any perfection and as I stated above they remained in circulation for many decades.&nbsp; The larger pieces or full tetartera are easier to find in better condition but they always have their faults.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one coin I was given by a dealer for free before tetartera had a fan base, the reverse was near perfect, the obverse well you can see. It is at 23mm around 5gm</p><p>[ATTACH=full]884504[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The half ( or semi) tetartera are very sparse of great examples, too small, made in huge quantities and perfection did not seem to be anyone&#039;s priority.&nbsp; BTW even though the catalogs don&#039;t note this , their were multiple sizes of this coin, one even smaller than mine above. BTW Doug both of those examples are above average.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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