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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 6655171, member: 44316&quot;]I collect Byzantine copper (among other series), but not gold.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I could not bear to add only a few coins a year to my collection. By collecting copper I can add far more coins that are just as academically interesting, if not as beautiful.&nbsp; I can pull a Byzantine history book off the shelf (I recommend the author John Julius Norwich), read a bit, and think, I have a coin of that emperor.</p><p><br /></p><p>An introduction for beginners is here:</p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The story of Byzantine Antioch under Justinian is fascinating, and better told with copper coins than with gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1268965[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Large. 39 mm. 20.77 grams.</p><p>Justinian (527-565). Year XIII = 13,</p><p>minted at Antioch after it was renamed Theoupolis</p><p>ΘYΠO abbreviating &quot;Theoupolis&quot; in Greek.</p><p><b>ThUPO</b>lis</p><p>Officina Γ&nbsp; (= 3) below the middle of the M</p><p>The obverse legend is</p><p>DN [Dominus Noster, our lord]</p><p>IVSTINI-ANVS</p><p>PP&nbsp;&nbsp; [PerPetuus] AVG</p><p>Sear 218.</p><p><br /></p><p>The story of Antioch and its coins under Justinian is <a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html" rel="nofollow">told here</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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