Thank you! And a most interesting Ottoman coin you have!
Wow - yours is a very nice contemporary coin! Perhaps it was used to pay the Hungarian iron worker Urban, who, when Constantine XI could not...
Thank you. I hope a Constantine XI comes your way soon!
There is a 19th c. Greek poem, whose translated title is "The Marble Emperor" that treats of this legend. Yes, if fairness ruled in peoples'...
On Tuesday 29 May 1453 an Ottoman army of ca. 80,000 men, led by Sultan Mehmet II, captured the city of Constantinople after a 53 day siege,...
Here's my Leukas.[ATTACH]
Here is one of my Trajans, but I have not counted the number of letters![ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Happy birthday, Doug! Multos annos!
My previous reply was not quite precise. In the abbreviation for the emperor's name, AΛ, the lambda is of course present, so I should have written...
C - Φ / AΛ − ∆ is an abbreviation for: S(taure) Ph(ylatte) A(lexion) D(espoten), Cross, protect Alexios, the despot.
Thank you for sharing a well written and informative write up! It's great to read Byzantine themed posts, of which there have been several lately....
What a wonderful collection and descriptive write up! Thanks for sharing it. It's so good to meet more Byzantinists!
Further to the thread of the Last Romans, I would opt for the fall of the empire in 1453, rather than the last quarter of the fifth century. After...
Dear Dougsmit, I also have a Leo with Greek lambda for Latin L, evidence of the decline of Latin in the eastern empire by the middle 5th c.....
Here's a Leo with full obverse legend, which these tiny coins usually lack. Also, an Anastasius nummus with a partial obverse legend, again,...
In archaic Latin, "K" was the character used for the sound of K, while "C" was used to represent the sound of G. Gradually the letter "C" also...
Dougsmit's overstrike is the most dramatic I have seen, but there are 3-4 examples known of Leontius (695-698) half follis overstrikes on...
You are most welcome. I wish all we Cointalkers could get together in a meeting and get to know one another in person!
Thank you for your thoughtful words, Dougsmit; yes my friend Bill is very special. He got me on the right path to studying ancients when I was...
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