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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;arnoldoe, post: 2806558, member: 72712&quot;]a coin I got a little while ago</p><p>[ATTACH=full]655650[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Basil II Bulgaroktonos (The Bulgar Slayer), with Constantine VIII. </b>976-1025.</p><p>AR Miliaresion. Constantinople mint. Struck AD 977-989.</p><p>Obverse:Cross crosslet with central X set on globus atop four steps, between crowned facing busts of Basil and Constantine</p><p>Reverse: + ЬASIL/ C CWҺSTAҺ/ ΠORFVROS/ ΠISTV/ ЬAS’/ RWMAIW’ in five lines; ornament above and below.</p><p>DOC 18a.1; SB 1811.</p><p>2.9g 23mm</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Basil II The Bulgar Slayer + Constantine VIII. </b>976-1025. AR Miliaresion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Basil II spent his nearly 50 year reign constantly on campaign fighting rebellious military commanders,&nbsp; Khazars, Bulgarians + Fatamiids...</p><p><br /></p><p>He is most famous for having 15,000 captured Bulgarians blinded after the Battle of Kleidion...</p><p>1 out of every 100 were allowed to keep 1 eye so he could lead the others home.. When the Bulgarian leader Samuel saw his blinded soldiers, he was said to have have had a heart attack + died 2 days later.</p><p><br /></p><p>meanwhile Basil&#039;s brother Constantine VIII (on the right) supposedly did very little and &quot;spent his life in the search of pleasure and entertainment, including spectator sports at the Hippodrome of Constantinople, or amusing himself with riding and hunting.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Empire at the beginning + at the end of Basil II&#039;s reign [ATTACH=full]655646[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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