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<p>[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 7461300, member: 84905"]Wolfgang Hahn describes in his book "Zur Münzprägung des frühbyzantinischen Reiches" how the tiny nummi exchanged hands in bags (lat. = follis). The name follis was also used for the large bronze coins which could be exchanged for bags of nummi.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two Anastasius folles from my collection:</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a large-flan follis of the mint of Constantinople (2. offizin).</p><p>DN ANASTASIVS PP AVG // M - B / CON</p><p>The coin was minted to the heavy standard after the reform of 512. (MIB 27.1)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1292861[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And a small-flan follis from Constantinople.</p><p>DN ANASTASIVS PP AVG // M - S / CON</p><p><br /></p><p>Note that the coin pictures are not to scale. The small-flan follis is at 22mm significantly smaller than the large-flan follis (38mm). This coin was minted before the reform of 512. In fact, the emission with stars began in AD 507 (according to Hahn). So the coin can be dated to 507 to 512. The stars were probably added to mark the 500th birthday of Christ, which was celebrated in 507/508.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hahn says that 5 offizins produced these coins: A, B, gamma, delta and epsilon. Despite the CON sigle, the epsilon-offizin was probably located in Heraclea and operated as a branch of Constantinople. Only the coins from Nikomedia had their own sigle NIK. My coin shows the offizin letter S, which Hahn does not mention.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>(MIB 23)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1292863[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 7461300, member: 84905"]Wolfgang Hahn describes in his book "Zur Münzprägung des frühbyzantinischen Reiches" how the tiny nummi exchanged hands in bags (lat. = follis). The name follis was also used for the large bronze coins which could be exchanged for bags of nummi. Here are two Anastasius folles from my collection: This is a large-flan follis of the mint of Constantinople (2. offizin). DN ANASTASIVS PP AVG // M - B / CON The coin was minted to the heavy standard after the reform of 512. (MIB 27.1) [ATTACH=full]1292861[/ATTACH] And a small-flan follis from Constantinople. DN ANASTASIVS PP AVG // M - S / CON Note that the coin pictures are not to scale. The small-flan follis is at 22mm significantly smaller than the large-flan follis (38mm). This coin was minted before the reform of 512. In fact, the emission with stars began in AD 507 (according to Hahn). So the coin can be dated to 507 to 512. The stars were probably added to mark the 500th birthday of Christ, which was celebrated in 507/508. Hahn says that 5 offizins produced these coins: A, B, gamma, delta and epsilon. Despite the CON sigle, the epsilon-offizin was probably located in Heraclea and operated as a branch of Constantinople. Only the coins from Nikomedia had their own sigle NIK. My coin shows the offizin letter S, which Hahn does not mention. (MIB 23) [ATTACH=full]1292863[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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