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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 3765328, member: 83845&quot;]Since the time machine is broke down and in need of some fixin’ we might as well get out here in the year 1453, stretch our legs, and look around...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1008036[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Hmmm it looks like Constantinople is in a bit of a pickle <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yup. It was this year, 1453, that the city of Constantinople fell to the forces of the Ottoman ruler Mehmed II.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1008037[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>A French miniature showing the siege (painted ca. 1455).&nbsp; The drawing is surprisingly accurate on the overall layout of the city as it clearly shows a “horn shaped” city on a peninsula surrounded by the sea and a river. However the architecture in the painting is clearly very French inspired!</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>There have been some very interesting write ups about this event on the forum.</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/29-may-1453.317190/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/29-may-1453.317190/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/29-may-1453.317190/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This date is one that is sometimes considered to be the demarcating line of “ancient coins”!</p><p><br /></p><p>Also... I know someone on the forum who has an AH 855 / 1451-2 example. In fact, it is posted to the above linked thread. I will send a message to ask if he would be willing to post it here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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