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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 952404, member: 19463&quot;]Yes, of course.&nbsp; I sould have thought of placing the answers in &#039;hidden color&#039; text.&nbsp; Your no-longer-Roman Vespasian even better illustrates how hard it is to avoid &#039;Roman&#039; in this period.&nbsp; Royal families intermarried even if they were barbarians or enemies.&nbsp; Many of the powers of the early medieval period considered themselves the new Rome.&nbsp; This continued well past our period in the Holy Roman Empire.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I collected ancient Greek and Roman coins for years before I realized how intricately the histories of these people were linked to their neighbors.&nbsp; I am uncomfortable with the idea that you can study history in neat little packages ignoring people who either lost their war or wrote no histories (at least in a language Westerners study in high school).&nbsp; Greece was the most interesting place once but was pushed aside by Rome.&nbsp; During the time specified here (450-1000), numismatic interest is like a donut with neat stuff in Britain, Africa, Asia more easily found than thngs in the center of Europe.&nbsp; It always bothered me that Roman history classes centered on the 12 Caesars more because Suetonius&#039; book survived than that they were more interesting.&nbsp; You have to dig harder to find details about later days.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>One could make a display of coins of authorities known entirely or in substantial part from their coins.&nbsp; Some of the coins shown above would fit this set and provide a good reason for us to study coins along with our more traditional studies of texts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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