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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nap, post: 2490092, member: 73099&quot;]One of my dream coins is an 1/8th stavraton of the last emperor, Constantine XI.&nbsp; It was documented that his coins were made from the melting down of the silver relics of Hagia Sophia and other churches.&nbsp; They were produced to pay the Italian mercenaries in a doomed last ditch effort to defeat the Turks and raise the siege of Constantinople.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins of Constantine XI are very rare, with the majority of examples known from a hoard of about 100 coins found in the 1990s.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>They were probably reasonably priced when first disbursed to museums and private collectors, but have now become prohibitively expensive for the likes of me.&nbsp; I have had to content myself with a coin of the penultimate emperor, Constantine&#039;s brother and predecessor John VIII:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o582/napoleoniii/john-viii-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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