I recently added the two coins pictured below to my
collection. Both came from
FORVM, where they were listed as
imitative anonymous folles, mimicking the
Class A1
follis type of
John I Tzimisces. They are tentatively attributed to a Balkan
mint source, with a production date circa 970 – 980 AD.
I admittedly know very little about these coins, but now that I own two of them, I guess I need to learn more about them. The
FORVM description mentions a section by P.
Lampinen in
Wayne Sayles’ book; Ancient Coin Collecting V: The Romaion/Byzantine Culture.
I don’t happen to have a copy of this book, but am actively searching for one. I checked
DOC 3.2 under the "
Anonymous Folles" section, but they didn't mention anything about them. Might they be somewhere else in those publications?
Does anyone have any additional (ideally) readily available sources of information on these coins?
Craig