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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;acanthite, post: 449884, member: 6647&quot;]Except in the case of the Byzantine AE&#039;s and AV&#039;s, I don&#039;t see other scyphate coins being particularily conducive to stacking.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is what George Hill has to say in <i>Ancient Methods of Coining</i>:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;A curious development, found especially in decadent or barbarous coinages, is what is called the scyphate or cup-shaped fabric.&nbsp; The obverse, although its relief is not high, is strongly convex, the reverse strongly concave, so that the coin takes the shape of a small saucer.&nbsp; <b>The object of this fabric may possibly have been to fix the blank firmly between the dies in striking</b>.&nbsp; It is characteristic of certain barbarous Celtic coinages, of one group of coins of the Himyarite rulers of Soutehrn Arabia in the first centruy after Christ, and of the later Byzantine coinages, as well as of the some Balkan coinages under Byzantine influence.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is my only example of what he refers to directly -</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Himyarties (Arabia Felix)</p><p>1/2 denarius AR</p><p>50-150 AD</p><p>Amdan Bayyin Yanaf</p><p>Raidan mint</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x7/karakorum_photos/YEM-HIM_50-150AD_Amdan.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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