This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...of 300. grains is hardly ever reached (298.6, 283.2, 281, 264.4, 247.7). K 180.6, 158.7, 149 Constantinople; 174.2 Nicomedia; 176.2 Cyzicus; 98, 76 Thessalonica; 206.3 Carthage. At Alexandi.ia. IB (12) coins, wt. 84.3 s1 S (=6), wt. 52; and r (=3), wt. 32 (cp. p. 62, note 1, infra). Also the denomination (33 nummia), ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...of 300. grains is hardly ever reached (298.6, 283.2, 281, 264.4, 247.7). K 180.6, 158.7, 149 Constantinople; 174.2 Nicomedia; 176.2 Cyzicus; 98, 76 Thessalonica; 206.3 Carthage. At Alexandi.ia. IB (12) coins, wt. 84.3 s1 S (=6), wt. 52; and r (=3), wt. 32 (cp. p. 62, note 1, infra). Also the denomination (33 nummia), wt. 223.3 (cp. p. 62, note 1, infra). At TJwssalonica exceptional denominations occur (cp. p.. 43, note, infra), as follows: --IS (16;, wt. 123.6, 104. H (8), wt. 72.2 (highest). A (4), wt. 26.5. r (3), wt. 17.2. B (2), wt. 12. Justin II. The coins show a falling off in weight as compared with Justinian's coinage. M 235.5, 243.4 Constantinople; 248.2 Nicomedia. K 128 Constantinople; lighter at Thessalonica; 153.6 Carthage. XX 79.7 Rome. I 46.4 Thessalonica; 77.4 Antioch; 75.6 Carthage. X 83 Carthage; 47 Sicily. IB 79.7 Alexandria. Tiberius II. M 277 Constantinople; 260.2 Nicomedia; 242.2 Cyzicus; at Antioch generally below 200 grains, the highest weight being 238.8. 1 For weights of coins of Alexandria in various reigns. see Kubitschek in Num. Zeilschrift, xxix, 1897 (1898), p. 193 f. This piece of ' 12' was in Egypt reckoned as the follis, ibid., p. 183 f. XXX, a new denomination (p. 110, infra), wt. 199.6. XX 121.8 Constantinople (p. 110); 133.7 Nicomedia; 102.7 Antioch; 99.7 Rome. K 97.4 Thessalonica; 121 Antioch. X 66 Constantinople (p. 111). I 55.6 Constantinople; 72.5 Ravenna. L (5) 42.1 Constantinople. IB 76.3, 84.4 Alexandria. Maurice Tiberius. M Nearly always below 200 grains. The heaviest specimen at Constantinople weighs 205.6; at Nicomedia, 213.6. At Cyzicus only one specimen reaches 200. At Antioch always below 200. K generally below 100. Highest weight, 109.9. I 50.4 Constantinople; 51.5 Cyzicus; 5 66 Antioch; 66.4 Sicily. 6 ...
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