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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herberto, post: 2209182, member: 74222&quot;]”On this place we saw coinage of copper and tin for first time”.</p><p><br /></p><p>The place is Byzantine Balkan and Odo of Deuil, a crusader from 2. Crusades, wrote so because in the western Europe they only had coinage of silver so the use of not precious metals as coinage surprised him.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am now maybe asking a dumb question: Did late Roman and Byzantine coinages use BOTH copper and tin always? Do we have examples where only copper was used?</p><p><br /></p><p>There are plenty of copper ore. Tin ore is rarely. So why use both when copper is enough to mint coins?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone who knows?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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