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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7935330, member: 115909&quot;]One thing I love about collecting coins is that when I get a coin from a place I’ve never heard of or a time period I don’t know much about it makes me curious about that time/place and I end up wanting to learning more and more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Collecting actually helps me and encourages me to learn more.</p><p><br /></p><p>I just like to know what was going on with the people when they were using this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like when I think of an Athenian owl Tetradrachm I think of a rising Greece fresh (relatively speaking) from defeating the Persian Empire. I think:</p><p><br /></p><p>“Wow this coin may have been held by Pericles!”</p><p><br /></p><p>Or when I think of a Roman denarius of Augustus I think of a coin that was circulating when the Roman Empire was at it’s peak. I think:</p><p><br /></p><p>“Wow this coin could have been held by a Roman legionary, a member of the Praetorian guard, a famous historian like Livy or Suetonius, who knows?”</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry for the long rant, but anyway, as</p><p>a lot of you know I picked up a Byzantine solidus of Justinian recently and I’ve been looking for books or articles online about the Emperors of the Byzantine Empire. Most of the reading I’ve done on Rome has been during the times from its founding under Romulus to its fall in 476 AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>Suetonius wrote “The Lives of the Twelve Caesars” detailing the lives and accomplishments (and mistakes) of the first 12 Emperors of Rome but is there anything similar for the first 12 Emperors of the Byzantine Empire beginning with Constantine?</p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone knows of any good books on Byzantine Emperors please post here or PM me if you’d prefer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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