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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2886659, member: 44316&quot;]I got this massive (8&quot; x 10 1/2&quot; x 5 3/4&quot; thick) 3-volume series, <i>The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium </i>inexpensively. A casual glance through it shows a bit of everything.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]692992[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]692947[/ATTACH]</p><p>Want to know what a &quot;mappa&quot; is?&nbsp; It&#039;s in there. Want to know about the title &quot;Clarissimus&quot;? It&#039;s in there. I imagine much of it is now on Wikipedia, but probably with less authority. Anyway, I love books.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a Byzantine coin:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]692996[/ATTACH]</p><p>Justinian. 527-565. 10-nummia piece (see the X in exergue). 21-19 mm. 5.91 grams.</p><p>VICTORIA AG</p><p>One of the very few AE Byzantine types with a reverse legend.</p><p>Sear Byz 271. MIBE (Hahn) 220 &quot;struck 547-552&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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