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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Voulgaroktonou, post: 4498544, member: 84047&quot;]What an interesting and informative write up. Thank you!</p><p>My most recent Phokas: Ceremonial miliarense. Constantinople, 602-607. 1.21 gr. 19 mm. hr. 7. Sear 638A; Hahn 54. CNG E auction 437, lot 529. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1115638[/ATTACH] </p><p>The Thessalonikan AES are often of competent style: A follis of Year 4: 605/6. 10.55 gr. 32 mm. hr. 6. Sear 653; Hahn 91; BNP 2-3.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1115639[/ATTACH] </p><p>...as opposed to that of this Kyzikene half follis, which is goofy. Year 2: 603/4. 6.50 gr. 26 mm. Hr. 6. Sear 670 var.; Hahn 79 var.; DO 79a var; BM 98 var; this variety, with the regnal year to the left of the mark of value is not noted. My wife uses coins like this to bolster her opinion that space aliens interbred with populations in the eastern Mediterranean in late antiquity. Who am I to say her nay? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1115640[/ATTACH] </p><p>Several of the Antiochene folles and their fractions </p><p>were engraved by a very talented artist, such as this one. I published in the Aug. 2000 Celator a better example of this type from a private collection of which I was then curator. That example is now in Dumbarton Oaks. This is mine: Year 7: 608/9. 10.56 gr. 30 mm. Hr. 5. Sear 672A; Hahn 84b. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1115642[/ATTACH] </p><p>And a half follis, also Year 7: 608/9. 4.97 gr. 23 mm. Hr. 6. Sear 674; Hahn 86a; BNP 31-32. CNG E auction 335, lot 639. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1115644[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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