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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24718054, member: 26430&quot;]All right! I searched through my old posts, and I&#039;ve actually never posted most of my Byzantine Folles. At least I can&#039;t find any previous post of this one:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>JUSTINIAN PLAGUE FOLLIS (<b>39mm, 23.97g</b>). </b></p><p><b>Year XV (541/2), Nicomedia.</b></p><p>Ex Leu e-15, NAC 75, M&amp;M (DE) 36, G&amp;M 200.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1580801[/ATTACH]</p><p>Struck during the height of the raging &quot;Justinian Plague&quot; (Bubonic Plague) that devastated the Empire, causing Justinian and his generals to abandon their ambitions for restoring the old Roman Empire&#039;s territory, and changing the course of world history.</p><p><br /></p><p>Justinian himself was famously infected -- but survived! He had prominent facial/neck scars for life and was said never to have been quite the same again.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find the &quot;Justinian Plague Coinage&quot; fascinating for many reasons. (For one thing, it&#039;s amazing the mints could remain active at all in cities where 2/3 of the population died within a few years!) I posted a blog on the topic, also incl. some of my other related coins in 2021: <a href="https://conservatoricoins.com/showcase-coin-justinian-plague-follis-constantinople-540-1-ad/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://conservatoricoins.com/showcase-coin-justinian-plague-follis-constantinople-540-1-ad/" rel="nofollow">https://conservatoricoins.com/showcase-coin-justinian-plague-follis-constantinople-540-1-ad/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="6"><b>NEXT:</b></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="6">Coin connected to historical events</font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="6">that you find interesting</font></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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