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<p>[QUOTE="seth77, post: 7622268, member: 56653"]It may be so, but we should keep in mind that these minute details that we are searching in order to make clear differentiations were most likely irrelevant back then unless they were used as regular privy marks. Irregular coinage created to supplant a lack of official coinage does not usually employ such complex identification markers, so often times small details are just that: particularities of certain dies. When we, as researchers, try to put too much importance on some of these things in our quest to make clear-cut distinctions, we risk falling into a kind of numismatic pareidolia -- wanting to see patterns and distinctions that were not originally meant as such.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I would do instead, I'd focus on metrology and quality. Coins that do adhere to the Imperial standards and were struck with more care on better flans are more likely to have been official products, while smaller, more ragged flans with lesser quality strikes, of the likes that Lunardi gathered for his Signoria di Rodi chapter, are more likely local coins. The tertarteron has a history in this respect: the "Greece workshops" minting tetartera (or half-tetartera) in the 12th century for Alexius and Manuel.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="seth77, post: 7622268, member: 56653"]It may be so, but we should keep in mind that these minute details that we are searching in order to make clear differentiations were most likely irrelevant back then unless they were used as regular privy marks. Irregular coinage created to supplant a lack of official coinage does not usually employ such complex identification markers, so often times small details are just that: particularities of certain dies. When we, as researchers, try to put too much importance on some of these things in our quest to make clear-cut distinctions, we risk falling into a kind of numismatic pareidolia -- wanting to see patterns and distinctions that were not originally meant as such. What I would do instead, I'd focus on metrology and quality. Coins that do adhere to the Imperial standards and were struck with more care on better flans are more likely to have been official products, while smaller, more ragged flans with lesser quality strikes, of the likes that Lunardi gathered for his Signoria di Rodi chapter, are more likely local coins. The tertarteron has a history in this respect: the "Greece workshops" minting tetartera (or half-tetartera) in the 12th century for Alexius and Manuel.[/QUOTE]
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