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Message:: [QUOTE="ancientcoinguru, post: 2400786, member: 75563"]I am attending An Introduction to Byzantine and Associated Dark Age Coinage (Sunday-Wednesday, June 26-29) at ANA in Colorado Springs.  Here's the blurb from ANA, in case any of you are interested in attending.<blockquote>"After the fall of Rome, the western part of the empire was thrown into a period commonly referred to as the dark ages. The Roman Empire continued in the east for another 1000 years and was the dominant central economic and cultural center of the Mediterranean for most of that time. The Coinage of the Byzantine era set the baseline for coinage of the Mediterranean basin during this time and is imitated and copied by the Germanic tribes that inhabited the east as well as the early Islamic coinage in the Levant. Starting with the currency reform of Anastasius this course focusses on byzantine coinage of the following 700 years as well as touching on the imitative coinage of the main Germanic tribes and Arab conquerors. Also discussed will be associated weights and seals of this era, giving the beginning student an understanding of the coinage, weight and seal types, how to read and catalog them, and interpret them leading to an overall introduction to this interesting era."</blockquote>[/QUOTE]