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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herberto, post: 8133502, member: 74222&quot;]I hope to get an answer from someone deep in byzantine coinage, but I have no much expectation of receiving an absolute answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 2017 a hoard of byzantine copper coins was found in Israel:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1416921[/ATTACH] </p><p>Source: <a href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/hoard-bronze-byzantine-coins-found-israel/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/hoard-bronze-byzantine-coins-found-israel/" rel="nofollow">https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/hoard-bronze-byzantine-coins-found-israel/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It is clearly suggesting that coins minted in Constantinople (CON) obviously circulated wide and ended in Israel/Palestine.</p><p><br /></p><p>That big “M” is a Greek denomination for 40 nummi, and that is a common denomination just as with 20, 10 and 5 nummi.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But in Thessalonika and in Egypt there are some weird denomination respectively 16 nummi and 12 nummi.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here we have one from Thessalonika (Greece) and 16 nummi:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1416922[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here from Alexandria (Egypt) and 12 nummi:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1416923[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now logically most of us think that those coins with such an unsual denomination like 16 or 12 nummi must have been circulated only in their respective mintcity and never outside. Because it is unsual denomination.</p><p><br /></p><p>I want to ask the following question:</p><p><br /></p><p>Have we ever excavated hoard(s) of 16 nummi coins OUTSIDE Thessalonika, and 12 nummi coins outside Alexandria?</p><p><br /></p><p>Have we ever found a bag of 16 nummi coins or 12 nummi coins in let say Israel, Italy or Tunesia?</p><p><br /></p><p>If we have then it would clearly suggest that such coins indeed did circulate outside their mintcity.</p><p><br /></p><p>As mentioned in the beginning I have no much expectation of receiving an absolute answer for such a specific question, but maybe someone here knows the answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have a nice day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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