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<p>[QUOTE="seth77, post: 7457046, member: 56653"]How common is the Greek legend? Seems like most (that keep any legend) have Latin legend.</p><p><br /></p><p>And here is something that I think might be somewhat scarce:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1292509[/ATTACH]</p><p>AE23mm 7.40g</p><p><br /></p><p>This specimen is from the second phase of the light and small module follis in Anastasius's bronze coinage reform. The countermark was probably applied in 512 when the final version of the follis (the large and heavy issue) was introduced and the earlier smaller and lighter coinages were re-tariffed to circulate together with the new coinage at half their face value; the crescent marking was likely applied in the Roman provinces of Palestina Prima or Secunda, indicating that this specimen circulated in the general area of the Eastern Levant region (see further from Georges Abou Diwan - Base-metal coinage circulation in Byzantine Beirut 491-641CE, pp. 174-5 <a href="https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02913366/document" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02913366/document" rel="nofollow">here</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse legend variation AVS instead of AVG.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="seth77, post: 7457046, member: 56653"]How common is the Greek legend? Seems like most (that keep any legend) have Latin legend. And here is something that I think might be somewhat scarce: [ATTACH=full]1292509[/ATTACH] AE23mm 7.40g This specimen is from the second phase of the light and small module follis in Anastasius's bronze coinage reform. The countermark was probably applied in 512 when the final version of the follis (the large and heavy issue) was introduced and the earlier smaller and lighter coinages were re-tariffed to circulate together with the new coinage at half their face value; the crescent marking was likely applied in the Roman provinces of Palestina Prima or Secunda, indicating that this specimen circulated in the general area of the Eastern Levant region (see further from Georges Abou Diwan - Base-metal coinage circulation in Byzantine Beirut 491-641CE, pp. 174-5 [URL='https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02913366/document']here[/URL]). Obverse legend variation AVS instead of AVG.[/QUOTE]
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