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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 2761424, member: 84744&quot;]I should get a solidus of Justinian!&nbsp; They rarely come at bargain prices though...</p><p><br /></p><p>My Justinian follis was issued in the year of the plague.&nbsp; Here are my notes on the year of issue:</p><p>Minted 541/2 (regnal year 15: In 541, the last official appointment to the consulship was made, given to Anicius Faustus Albinus Basilius (without a colleague).&nbsp; After this date, the office of consul was merged with that of being emperor (and the practice of naming the year by the consuls was dropped).</p><p>In 541, war with the Persians begins (&quot;Lazic War&quot;, vs. Khusru I).&nbsp; Justinian recalls Belisarius from Italy (541) to fight in Armenia, and the following year the Goths under Totila wreak devastation on the Byzantines in Italy.</p><p>541/2 was the year of the first recorded epidemic of (possibly) bubonic plague, of comparable devastation to the Black Death in the 14th century.&nbsp; Up to one quarter of the human population around the eastern Mediterranean died, and possibly as many as 25 million worldwide.&nbsp; Justinian himself contracted the disease, but recovered.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]634692[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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