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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David@PCC, post: 4051442, member: 80556&quot;]It&#039;s a great little series, one of the best I&#039;ve seen. I have to disagree with the gentleman on the melting down of religious artifacts episode, where he stated coins of Constantine XI were inferior to John VIII. Maybe one of the only areas of the series I am familiar in. He showed a Stavraton, similar to mine below, from John and boasted on it&#039;s size and that it was made from silver. Then he showed a thin base metal coin claiming it to be from Constantine. Both emperors minted silver in multiple denominations and the base coin actually should belong to John (follaro). Makes me question what else they got wrong. Besides that, it would be very difficult to tell if a coin was minted in December of 1449 or May 1453.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1061877[/ATTACH]</p><p>John VIII Palaeologus</p><p>Constantinople mint</p><p>1425-1448</p><p>AR Stavraton, 23x24mm, 7.08g</p><p>Obvs: Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; barred IC XC across field; sigla: blank | Λ. 12 pellets in outer border.</p><p>Revs: +ωAHCΔϵCΠOTHCO +XAPITHBACIΛϵVCTOиPOMϵO in two lines around crowned facing bust of John; sigla: pellet | pellet</p><p>DOC 1663-4; Bendall 348.14, sigla 12; SB 2564[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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