Ancient Coins: The Byzantine Empire

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  @ClassicalNumismatics · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

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• MR

  @MrMonkeySwag96 · 1 year ago

  I like how affordable Byzantine gold coins are compared to Greek &amp; Roman gold coins. Last year I bought my first ancient gold coin, a Byzantine gold Semissis of emperor Justinian. One of my favorite Byzantine coins in my collection is my silver Hexagram of emperor Heraclius. The Hexagram was an emergency currency minted using silver salvaged from church relics. As you mentioned earlier, silver was scarce in the Byzantine economy. Emperor Heraclius was forced to melt down church relics &nbsp;to make silver Hexagrams to pay for the costs of his wars against the Persians and Arabs.

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• IV

  @ivdeadelendaest · 1 year ago

  I love the later byzantine coins with the detailed depictions of Christ. Goes to show they didn&apos;t just forget how to make realistic designs they just chose not to.

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  @VANGELISNISYROS · 4 months ago

  It is a great lecture on Byzantine times....

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• HR

  @hridgreximp6194 · 1 year ago

  The trachies of the commenid dynasty are probably the most illusive, most people ignore them for their poor quality but having seen some beautiful fully silvered ones, there’s definitely material for a second video and later Byzantium.

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  @GeorgeForest-e6d · 1 year ago

  I read a story about Western soldiers landing in Turkey or S. Italy at the end of WW1. &nbsp; They ran across a young man as they landed and asked him who he was. &nbsp; He replied, “I am a Roman sir.”

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• SP

  @SpectreEelman · 1 year ago (edited)

  Glad you&apos;ve finally moved into Byzantine Coins. I&apos;ve been collecting them for many years. My favorite of the early period you covered in this video are the Follis coins. I am very partial to Follis of Justianian I.. I currently have 30 follis of him - always on the look out for, as I trying to have one follis for every regal year (but buy them even if they are a regal year I already own)

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• MA

  @markp44288 · 1 year ago

  I finally ordered Anastasius last week. &nbsp;It may even be in my PO box now.

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• SA

  @sandrojones8068 · 1 year ago

  LETS GO!! <br>Thanks for the video!

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• JA

  @jayvan4353 · 1 year ago

  I watched this last night and dug out the pile of Byzantine coins I&apos;ve had for decades. &nbsp;It was super cool to understand many of the markings. Thank you!

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  @Trachy · 1 year ago

  A wonderful introductory video. I hope to see more Byzantine content in the future!

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• ER

  @EricDodsonLectures · 1 year ago

  I wish I had more than one thumbs-up to give to this video.

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