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<p>[QUOTE="BenSi, post: 25937342, member: 95174"]Ross always a pleasure having you participate in a subject. <i>Also, congratulations are in order that your observations were cited on several coins in Sommers new catalog edition. </i></p><p><br /></p><p>I am currently cataloging my entire collection of tetartera. I am only at John II but thus far I have 24 examples of SBCV-1932, that does include several imitations, on the low end. .70gm on the high end 2.20gm (I excluded one pictured above .63gm, but that matches a 13th century imitation.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The limitation of my examples is that they were either purchased as VF examples or in a group lot. So no hoard info or find info and all are easily attributable. Several are imitations but not of a normal variety. They will require additional observation.</p><p><br /></p><p><u>I do agree they seem to be at least two types</u> but I am not certain about clipping. I feel they just used a too small flan for an unimportant issue but the scale is clearly off on some of the portraits. The reverses are more difficult to find complete, all 4 letters.</p><p><br /></p><p>After sorting all examples, I will break them down by DOC and observations. I believe I will have additional examples show up. bellow, is my basic info I am putting on each coin as being sorted. It will take at least another month to have all the tetartera sorted. The only examples photographed are the key ones in my collection, photographing each example would be a time-consuming adventure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any data you need from me for your study I am more than happy to provide.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1650871[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BenSi, post: 25937342, member: 95174"]Ross always a pleasure having you participate in a subject. [I]Also, congratulations are in order that your observations were cited on several coins in Sommers new catalog edition. [/I] I am currently cataloging my entire collection of tetartera. I am only at John II but thus far I have 24 examples of SBCV-1932, that does include several imitations, on the low end. .70gm on the high end 2.20gm (I excluded one pictured above .63gm, but that matches a 13th century imitation.) The limitation of my examples is that they were either purchased as VF examples or in a group lot. So no hoard info or find info and all are easily attributable. Several are imitations but not of a normal variety. They will require additional observation. [U]I do agree they seem to be at least two types[/U] but I am not certain about clipping. I feel they just used a too small flan for an unimportant issue but the scale is clearly off on some of the portraits. The reverses are more difficult to find complete, all 4 letters. After sorting all examples, I will break them down by DOC and observations. I believe I will have additional examples show up. bellow, is my basic info I am putting on each coin as being sorted. It will take at least another month to have all the tetartera sorted. The only examples photographed are the key ones in my collection, photographing each example would be a time-consuming adventure. Any data you need from me for your study I am more than happy to provide. [ATTACH=full]1650871[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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