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Offline Simon

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Byzantine Coin of the day.
« on: July 06, 2020, 10:30:51 pm »
2151 Anonymous (Magn.) AE Tetarteron – SBCV-2151 DOC IV 3 Type A

OBV Inverted B with pellets l and r. of field.

REV Full length of the Emperor seated on throne with back; wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jewelled loros of simplified type;holds in r.hand scepter cruiciger and in l. anexikakia.

Size 18.15

Weight 1.7gm

DOC lists 5 examples. weight vary 1.58gm to 4.54gm and 19 to 23mm
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Offline Vladislav D

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Re: Byzantine Coin of the day.
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2020, 07:24:47 pm »
Nice one . How do we know that B is inverted ?
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Vlad .
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Re: Byzantine Coin of the day.
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2020, 08:08:41 pm »
Good question.  The Sear plate coin shows it as a regular B.  But I guess it depends on whether the die axis is 0 or 180.
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Re: Byzantine Coin of the day.
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2020, 09:20:49 pm »
I used DOC, they show it inverted.
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