Interesting article... Road from Rome, by Walter Scheidel https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-fall...ail&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-d2a384ea50-71450140 Have some FUN... show some of your KEY coins from various Ancient Empires around the WORLD FIRST DENARIUS of Rome is: Anonymous, circa 310-300 BCE Heavy Denarius / Didrachm Tarrifed at 10 Asses (Silver, 20mm, 7.28 g 11), uncertain mint (Neapolis?). Helmeted head of Mars to left; oak spray to right. Rev. Horse’s head right, wearing bridle, on base inscribed ROMANO; to left, stalk of grain. Crawford 13/1. HN III 266. Sydenham 1. Minor reverse corrosion, otherwise, about very fine. From a Swiss collection, formed in the 1990s. SOUTH ASIA India Gandahara AR Bent Bar 11.3g 650-600 BCE long early type RARE two dots - on BOTH ends MIDDLE-EAST Makedon Alexander III Lifetime Tetradrachm Myriandrus mint-Alexandria near Issus SOUTH ASIA Sri Lanka, excavated in Anuradhapura Anonymous, 1st C. BCE PB 1/8 Lakshmi 1.1g, 14.1mm x 7.8mm RARE OBV: Hindu Goddess Lakshmi facing. She is the goddess of wealth, fortune, and prosperity. She was a beauty and the wife of Vishnu REV: (blank) Comment: "Lakshmi (Sanskrit: लक्ष्मी, lakṣmī,ˈləkʂmiː) is the Hindu goddess of wealth, fortune and prosperity. She is the wife and shakti(energy) of Vishnu, a major god in Hinduism.[2] Lakshmi is also an important deity in Jainism and found in Jain temples.[3] Lakshmi was also a goddess of abundance and fortune for Buddhists, and was represented on the oldest surviving stupas and cave temples of Buddhism.[4][5] In Buddhist sects of Tibet, Nepal and southeast Asia, goddess Vasudharamirrors the characteristics and attributes of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi with minor iconographic differences." -Wikipedia.org CHINA Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang - 1st Emperor to unite China China Qin Shi Huang 34mm 8.5g ban liang 221-206 BCE 半两 Primitive Line script rare ex Dr Alex Fishman NORTH AFRICA Carthage Empire Carthage Zeugitana 310-270 BCE EL Dekadrachm-Stater 18.5mm 7.27g Tanit Horse 3 pellets in ex MAA 12 SNG COP 136 Have some FUN... show some of your KEY coins from various Ancient Empires around the WORLD
Well, it never really was an «empire», but I guess it was the closest we got... Knut den Mektige, King of England 1016-27 AD
This guy did pretty good with a long established empire that he got from his dead buddy: Ptolemy II Philadelphos, 285-246 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 28 mm, 13.00 g, 12 h), Sidon, RY 32 = 254/3 BC. Diademed head of Ptolemy I to right, wearing aegis around neck. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ Eagle with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt; to left, ΣI above monogram of MT; to right, ΛB. CPE 524. Svoronos 739. Crystallized, double struck and with some edge chipping, otherwise, about extremely fine.
Byzantium. The distant, Greek-flavored successor of Rome. One of the questions that pops up after reading the Aeon essay is how much of the Roman legacy was preserved in Byzantium? How much of the creaking empire's former boundaries was upheld by the Ottomans? And certainly it's interesting to think about how the countries that revitalized banking, commerce, and crafted new empires were in areas that the Romans never held. Constantine X Ducas, 1059-1067. During his reign, the Normans took over much of the remaining Byzantine territories in Italy while in the Balkans the Hungarians occupied Belgrade. He also suffered defeats by the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan. AV Histamenon Nomisma. (AV, 28 mm, 4.41 g, 5 h), Constantinople. +IhS XIS RЄX RЄςNANTҺIm Christ, nimbate, seated facing on square-backed throne, wearing tunic and pallium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. Rev. +KωN RAC Λ O ΔOVKAC Constantine X standing facing, wearing crown and loros, holding labarum in his right hand and globus cruciger in his left. DOC 1a. SB 1847.
