I think the conquering Arabs did something like this with the Sassanian silver coinage when they occupied Persia.
Until a few days ago I would have just chalked this up as the work of an illiterate (or bored) mint worker.Of course it should read, en touto nika...
Me, too.
Thanks so much. A lifetime of coin collecting and only now acquiring such a coin. I'll have to dust off my Byzantine coin books.
There was a decline but it was most obvious in the ranks of the clergy which would spill out onto the laity. Why the clerical decline? The plague...
Thank you very much, Black Friar. I had no idea. I though these Arab copies always removed any traces of Christianity and the coin has three...
I'm going through my Byzantine coins and found one I think I misattributed at the time. It is a very small follis, about the size of a US nickel...
I don't have any coin of Otho, the only one of the 12 Caesars that I am missing. Considering the prices of his coins from Rome it will probably be...
My feeling is similar to yours in that it did look like Justinian was going to pull it off, economic improvements, shown in the improvement of the...
I think that one can make a strong case for plagues to fundamentally effect not just the social order, but every other aspect of living and...
Your Justinian folles are of museum quality. How beautiful and in Byzantine coinage that's not a commonplace.
This morning, on my newsfeed, there was an interesting article titled, 'We May Have Underestimated the First Known Outbreak of Bubonic Plague". We...
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Sorry readers and moderators. I don't know what happened when I hit "enter" The whole text I wrote had disappeared and the images reduced to...
I will check that out. Earlier today I ordered several books by Gillian Bradshaw. thanks for the tip.
Thanks. I had read the Bear Keeper's Daughter some time ago, an interesting bio of Theodora but the second one I will try to find. Thanks for...
A while ago there was a post that brought up the names of some authors of historical fiction, mostly Roman but some Greek as well. I am an avid...
My guess is that her immediate forbearers had come close to emptying the treasury to pay off Rome. Much of Egypt's remaining wealth was not in a...
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