Complex sentence: These were small, badly struck coins, weighing less than 1 gram, forming the lowest denomination of the Byzantine coinage valued officially at 1 ⁄ 7,200 of the gold "solidus" but more usually rated to 1 ⁄ 6,000 or 1 ⁄ 12,000.
Split into simpler sentences: These were small, badly struck coins, weighing less than 1 gram, forming the lowest denomination of the Byzantine coinage. They were valued officially at 1 ⁄ 7,200 of the gold "solidus" but more usually rated to 1 ⁄ 6,000 or 1 ⁄ 12,000.