The Origins of the Anastasian Currency Reform

Anastasian ancien fonds Antioch archaeological asterisk bust Cambridge catalogue Characteristic checked for duplication circle circlet coins marked coins of Anastasius Constantinople copper coinage Crescent to right cup-and-ball frontispiece cut in outline die-alignment die-axis die-cutter die-linked die-similarities dots drapery early evidence ex Bunn ex Schlumberger ex Sherborn exergual line experimental flans folles of Anastasius follis frontispiece to diadem globus cruciger Hague half-folles head hoard issue Jerash Justin Large cross large folles large letters Leningrad maltese cross Mangalia Near-duplicate neat Nicomedia normal number of coins nummi Obscure obtained in Turkey obverse and reverse obverse dies officina officina-numeral otherwise extremely similar Paris pattern perhaps petty currency portrait in style Punch-mark rays Rede reform Romania rounded serifs semi-circle sequence sestertius sigla SIVS sixth century small folles small module solidus specimens struck styles of portraiture stylistic survival-rate weight Whitting workman worn Zacos