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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 998127, member: 19463&quot;]Byzantine - Justinian</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; Rome may have fallen in the West but it continued in the East centered on the new capitol Constantinople built on the site of the ancient city Byzantium.&nbsp; The thousand years when Roman culture hung on in the East is termed the Byzantine era.&nbsp; Inflation had diminished nice coins of good silver content into small scraps of copper.&nbsp; Coinage reforms introduced new denominations including this 40 nummi piece of Justinian I dated to 544AD (year 18) and mintmarked Constantinople.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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