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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 24634951, member: 95174&quot;]The ones from Constantinople mints are. It was proven by Metcalf in the 1970&#039;s then retested by Michael Hendy in the 1990&#039;s and again proved the results. This was left out of future catalogs ( Sear did not note in the update. and CLBC said it was ceremonial only as well, So did Grierson in Byzantine coins.) I understand why Grierson thought so, at that time, all of the City Tetartera were rare and most of their knowledge was based on hoards. As for CLBC Val was just stubborn, evidence or not , he said no it was no. (Its funny when you read CLBC you can see the chapters written by Robert and the chapters written by Val.)</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b><u>That is really a point behind this article. Different sources, different answers.</u></b></p><p><b>I just wanted to try to make things a clearer for the new collectors or potential collectors of the restored Empire Palalogan coinage.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I did not realize until writing the main posting, the Numismatists in the 60&#039;s I suspect did not seem to like each other.&nbsp; I read Metcalfs review of Michael Hendys work on DOC IV and it was scathing.</p><p>Michael Hendy got famous for his work of the 12th century; the others perhaps were annoyed and are very good at attacking the details of the work. I agree not everything was correct but most of it was. (The main complaint is Bulgarian imitations now called faithful imitations.) This unfortunately has passed down to the new generation of numismatists.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for my collection I have been lacking on keeping it up to date on Forum albums, I have completed ALL of the know tetartera types of the Emperors for the 12th century. I then started to get the rest of the type of coinage created by them. I still have a dozen left to collect to finish the century.</p><p><br /></p><p>Trachea past the 12th century is a pain to collect 9 Congratulations on yours [USER=26430]@Curtis[/USER], I did manage to get a copy from the Simon Bendall Library of Lianta&#039;s work, it was a pre copy so it is softback, color photos and well worn, I imagine Bendall used it frequently.</p><p><br /></p><p>The assarions seemed interesting to me, so that collection has just been started.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did start my photos in scale so I could do a coin tray. This one is is of John II Comnenus (12th century). It is complete, it also has two of one type in it to balance it.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1567334[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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