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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 4281885, member: 44316&quot;]Here is a Byzantine coin of an unusual denomination, 30. Most early Byzantine AE coins&nbsp; are 40 (M or XXXX), 20 (K or XX), 10 (I or X), 5 (Є or V) or 1.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1089484[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Tiberius II, 578-582</p><p>Larger than most at <b>34-32 mm</b> and 12.46 grams.</p><p>(These XXX pieces are struck on large flans, almost as if they used 40-nummi flans anyway and struck them with dies marked 30.)</p><p>∂M TIb CONS-TANT PP AVG</p><p>XXXX, cross above</p><p>CONΔ in exergue</p><p>Sear 432. DO I Tiberius II 15. </p><p><br /></p><p>We may think of an empire as one thing. But the Byzantine Empire was large and the coinage system was not just one thing; it varied from place to place. Collect Byzantine coins for a while and you learn that the Alexandria, Thessalonica, and Cherson mints issued odd denominations, and this coin shows that occasionally Constantinople did, too. </p><p><br /></p><p>Show us a Byzantine coin with an unusual denomination![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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