Here are some more interesting coins from the excavations at Anaia.
The authors originally described these coins as stamena of
John V &
John VI (
Sear 2535), which is of course unlikely to say the least. More likely they are examples of
provincial issues from
Anatolia in the late 12th – early 13th centuries, when
Constantinople had essentially lost contact with the Greek Asian cities during the course of the Turkish invasion (see
Bendall PCPC p.76).
In fact these coins meet the description of
PCPC 379 (and
PCPC 147), although it’s hard to tell whether they match the
PCPC coins given the
poor state of the latter.
Ross G.
