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<p>[QUOTE="Ancientnoob, post: 1699995, member: 44140"]<span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> <i>Only under Emperor </i></font></span><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclius" rel="nofollow">Heraclius</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> (r. 610–641), in 615, were new silver coins minted to cover the needs of the </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine-Sassanid_War_of_602%E2%80%93628" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine-Sassanid_War_of_602%E2%80%93628" rel="nofollow">war with Sassanid Persia</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">. The material for these coins came chiefly from the confiscation of church plate. They were named after their weight of six </font></span><i>grammata (6.84 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram" rel="nofollow">grams</a>), and probably valued at 12 to the gold <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidus_(coin)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidus_(coin)" rel="nofollow">solidus</a>.[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagram_(currency)#cite_note-Grierson13-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagram_(currency)#cite_note-Grierson13-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a>[/SUP][SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagram_(currency)#cite_note-ODB-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagram_(currency)#cite_note-ODB-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a></i></i></p><p><i><i><br /></i></i></p><p><i><i>[/SUP]</i></i></p><ul> <li>Grierson, Philip (1999). <a href="http://www.doaks.org/publications/doaks_online_publications/byzcoins.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.doaks.org/publications/doaks_online_publications/byzcoins.pdf" rel="nofollow"><i>Byzantine Coinage</i></a>. Washington, District of Columbia: Dumbarton Oaks. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" rel="nofollow">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-88402-274-9" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-88402-274-9" rel="nofollow">978-0-88402-274-9</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kazhdan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kazhdan" rel="nofollow">Kazhdan, Alexander Petrovich</a>, ed. (1991). <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oxford_Dictionary_of_Byzantium" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oxford_Dictionary_of_Byzantium" rel="nofollow">The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium</a></i>. New York, New York and Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" rel="nofollow">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-504652-6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-504652-6" rel="nofollow">978-0-19-504652-6</a>.</li> </ul><p><br /></p><p>Thanks man for the added info!! Your general knowledge of all areas of coinage is impressive. You either A are really old, B have a ton of coins, C Been collecting since birth, D have an absurd number of books and time on your hands.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW admittedly I received the info from wikipedia which is pretty good most of the time but I don't own any of the sources but I have read this before some where else for sure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ancientnoob, post: 1699995, member: 44140"][COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif] [I]Only under Emperor [/I][/FONT][/COLOR][I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclius"]Heraclius[/URL][COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif] (r. 610–641), in 615, were new silver coins minted to cover the needs of the [/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine-Sassanid_War_of_602%E2%80%93628"]war with Sassanid Persia[/URL][COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif]. The material for these coins came chiefly from the confiscation of church plate. They were named after their weight of six [/FONT][/COLOR][I]grammata (6.84 [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram"]grams[/URL]), and probably valued at 12 to the gold [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidus_(coin)"]solidus[/URL].[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagram_(currency)#cite_note-Grierson13-2"][2][/URL][/SUP][SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagram_(currency)#cite_note-ODB-3"][3][/URL] [/SUP][/I][/I] [LIST] [*]Grierson, Philip (1999). [URL="http://www.doaks.org/publications/doaks_online_publications/byzcoins.pdf"][I]Byzantine Coinage[/I][/URL]. Washington, District of Columbia: Dumbarton Oaks. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number"]ISBN[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-88402-274-9"]978-0-88402-274-9[/URL]. [*][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kazhdan"]Kazhdan, Alexander Petrovich[/URL], ed. (1991). [I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oxford_Dictionary_of_Byzantium"]The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium[/URL][/I]. New York, New York and Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number"]ISBN[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-504652-6"]978-0-19-504652-6[/URL]. [/LIST] Thanks man for the added info!! Your general knowledge of all areas of coinage is impressive. You either A are really old, B have a ton of coins, C Been collecting since birth, D have an absurd number of books and time on your hands. BTW admittedly I received the info from wikipedia which is pretty good most of the time but I don't own any of the sources but I have read this before some where else for sure.[/QUOTE]
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