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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RaceBannon, post: 1978464, member: 25357&quot;]Never mind.&nbsp; I answered my own question.&nbsp; That is if Wikipedia is to be believed:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>The start of what is viewed as Byzantine currency by numismatics began with the </i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_reform" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_reform" rel="nofollow"><i>monetary reform</i></a><i> of </i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Emperor_Anastasius_I" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Emperor_Anastasius_I" rel="nofollow"><i>Anastasius</i></a><i> in 498, who reformed the late Roman Empire coinage system which consisted of the gold solidus and the bronze nummi. The </i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nummus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nummus" rel="nofollow"><i>nummus</i></a><i> was an extremely small bronze coin, at about 8–10 mm, weight of 0.56 making it at 276 to the </i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_pound" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_pound" rel="nofollow"><i>Roman pound</i></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_coinage#cite_note-Berk2008Justinian-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_coinage#cite_note-Berk2008Justinian-4" rel="nofollow"><i>[3]</i></a><i> which was inconvenient because a large number of them were required even for small transactions.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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