indeed they did have 1 hummus as coin, but most
prob. coin was used at beginning of
Anastasius reform until 498 AD and later in 512 AD when
weights of 40
nummus (M); 20
nummus (K) and decanummum (I) were doubled and therefore pentanummus (E) was added and also minting of nummi (A) was resumed... Most
prob. they continued to struck those one nummi coins until
VII century when decline of
follis appeared (M from 25 grams to 3 grams only during
Constans II!!). We
still can follow that decanummia and pentanummia were last struck in middle years of reign
Constantine V (741-797 AD) and NORMAL half-folles (K) during
Leo IV (775-780 AD); the half-folles of
Constantine IV (780-797 AD) were half the size of
his folles but with same design, despite the obvious inappropriateness of the numeral M. Dating
had abandoned apprx. half century earlier with meaningless
XXX NNN have substitute for the ANNO and numeral.
Theophilus finally abandoned also the mark -M- in favour of an
inscription in several lines that filled the
field...
You can not find those one nummi coins much because they were almost valueless
contemporary time of Byz. empire, so nobody stored them and nobody even wanting them...making them actually more valuable those days
