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<p>[QUOTE="BenSi, post: 3588116, member: 95174"]DOC is the most complete info , the real trick is asking yourself what to collect. The Byzantine /Easter Roman coinage is vast , the empire does not fall until 1453 , if you separate the coinage from the Roman Imperial coinage ending roughly 400 AD you have 1000 years of coins to deal with.</p><p><br /></p><p> I left Roman Imperial coins ( For the most part) almost 20 years ago. I found one Byzantine coin that really attracted me to collecting all of the coins of that denomination, a tetarteron, since then I have completed the worlds first privately owned complete set of tetartera from Alexius I to Alexius III ( I am missing one coin from Alexius III) </p><p>Deciding what to collect will sharpen your knowledge of that denomination or ruler.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This Book by Wayne Sayles will easily put the 1000 years of coins in to perspective and give you an idea of where to go with your collection. Btw , many people separate the empire of Rome and Byzantine for various reasons, I do not, nor did the people who lived in the Byzantine Empire, they called themselves Roman until the end. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a link to my tetartera collection. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5633" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5633" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5633</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I am now completing the rulers with their trachea and Hyperpyrons, hopefully someday I will complete the Comnenus family.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BenSi, post: 3588116, member: 95174"]DOC is the most complete info , the real trick is asking yourself what to collect. The Byzantine /Easter Roman coinage is vast , the empire does not fall until 1453 , if you separate the coinage from the Roman Imperial coinage ending roughly 400 AD you have 1000 years of coins to deal with. I left Roman Imperial coins ( For the most part) almost 20 years ago. I found one Byzantine coin that really attracted me to collecting all of the coins of that denomination, a tetarteron, since then I have completed the worlds first privately owned complete set of tetartera from Alexius I to Alexius III ( I am missing one coin from Alexius III) Deciding what to collect will sharpen your knowledge of that denomination or ruler. I agree with This Book by Wayne Sayles will easily put the 1000 years of coins in to perspective and give you an idea of where to go with your collection. Btw , many people separate the empire of Rome and Byzantine for various reasons, I do not, nor did the people who lived in the Byzantine Empire, they called themselves Roman until the end. Here is a link to my tetartera collection. [URL]https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5633[/URL] I am now completing the rulers with their trachea and Hyperpyrons, hopefully someday I will complete the Comnenus family.[/QUOTE]
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