Æ Follis (20mm, 3.04 g, 6h). Second type.
Metcalf, Crusades 63-70
Schlumberger, p. 45 and pl. II, 7
CCS 4a
O: + KЄ BHΘ TO HΓ TΩ ΔOYΛΩ TANKP, facing armored bust,
holding upraised sword
R: cross of four pellets above / Cross crosslet; IC | XC/NI
| KA in quarters, fleurons at base of cross.
RSC 21
RIC 500
RCV 6259
O: laur bust of Severus right L SEPT SEV AVG IMP XI PART MAX
R: Aequitas stg l, holding scales and cornucopiae, AEQVITATI AVGG
Album 1955 (S)
Lowick MH 13
Host coin is Sear
Byzantine Anonymous Class A3 SB 1818 attributed to Constantine VIII CE
1025-1028
O: one countermark in a circle reading عز
From the dealer’s write
up:
This counterstamp is attributed to Izz al-Din, governor of al-Jazirah appointed by Sayf al-Din Ghazi I of al-Mawsil (Mosul). Izz al-Din revolted upon Ghazi's death and took al-Jazirah as independent ruler, a period during which he presumably countermarked circulating coins in his name. This example is struck on a Byzantine anonymous follis attributed to the reign of Constantine VIII, 1025-1028 A.D. This countermark was present on 473 coins in the Mardin Hoard.
The Mardin Hoard was a large group of copper coins found before 1972 in the vicinity of Mardin in modern-day southeastern Turkey. The hoard consisted of at least 13,500 pieces, including around 2,200 Byzantine folles countermarked by local Islamic rulers, as reported by N. M. Lowick, author of 'The Mardin Hoard,' a 1977 book published to document the countermarks found on the coins. The hoard was important in further understanding patterns of circulation and countermarking of Byzantine coins still being used in lands recently claimed by Islamic rulers. Most examples are heavily worn from circulation and many are countermarked several times, some on top of each other.
Ex: Mardin Hoard 1972
Ex: A. H. Baldwin & Sons original purchaser of the hoard
Ex: William F. Spengler (1923-2005) Collection
RIC 219
RCV 9240 v
O: rad and draped bust r, M IVL PHILIPPVS CAES
R: Philip II stg l in military attire holding globe and resting on spear, PRINCIPI IVVENT
Ex: Davisson's Ltd, (Cold Spring MN) Auction Seven lot 142 (21 August 1996)
RIC 10
RCV 19884
O: diad bust left, DN PROCO-PIVS PF AVG
R: Procopius in military attire stg facing hd r, holding labarum and resting on shield, XP monogram in upper field r, REPARATI-O FEL TEMP in ex. SMNA
from Ammianus Marcellinus XXVI:9:11
Procopius departed this life at the age of forty years and ten months. Personally he was a tall man and not bad looking; he was somewhat dark complexioned, and walked with his gaze always fixed on the ground. In his secretive and gloomy nature he was like that Crassus who, as Lucilius and Cicero declare, laughed only once in his life; but the surprising thing is, that throughout all his life he was not stained with bloodshed.