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<p>[QUOTE="otlichnik, post: 6443801, member: 109731"]In terms of the West and Rome, I am going to stir up the pot by saying that 476 AD is largely irrelevant. </p><p><br /></p><p>Numismatically speaking, it resulted in no change in coinage. The true change in coinage came only in 498 AD, mid-way through Anastasius's reign, with his introduction of the follis-family (M, K, I and E) replacing the sole AE domination, the tiny nummus. This is generally accepted as the Roman - Byzantine dividing line, at least numismatically.</p><p><br /></p><p>Historically, 476 was earth-shattering according to some - the end of the Roman Empire et al - but was only a lesser symbolic change according to others - when an ethnically Germanic generalissimo, and true power-behind-the-throne, finally dispensed with the fiction of maintaining a puppet-Emperor in the West and sent the Imperial regalia back to Constantinople with a "no thank you, applicants need not apply" note.</p><p><br /></p><p>SC[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="otlichnik, post: 6443801, member: 109731"]In terms of the West and Rome, I am going to stir up the pot by saying that 476 AD is largely irrelevant. Numismatically speaking, it resulted in no change in coinage. The true change in coinage came only in 498 AD, mid-way through Anastasius's reign, with his introduction of the follis-family (M, K, I and E) replacing the sole AE domination, the tiny nummus. This is generally accepted as the Roman - Byzantine dividing line, at least numismatically. Historically, 476 was earth-shattering according to some - the end of the Roman Empire et al - but was only a lesser symbolic change according to others - when an ethnically Germanic generalissimo, and true power-behind-the-throne, finally dispensed with the fiction of maintaining a puppet-Emperor in the West and sent the Imperial regalia back to Constantinople with a "no thank you, applicants need not apply" note. SC[/QUOTE]
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