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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 2262023, member: 44210&quot;]Since I wasn&#039;t really satisified with the color of my solidus in my in-hand photo, and wanting to physically handle the coin as little as possible, I tweaked the overall color in PS to match more of what I see in hand (I&#039;ll give it more of a black background sometime in the near future).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/justinianIsolidus_zpsn1w75akw.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I also found a useful webpage discussing the relative values of Byzantine coins. During the time of minting of my coin (c.542-565 AD), my coin was worth 180 folles and 7,200 nummi:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.tulane.edu/~august/H303/currency/Justinian.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tulane.edu/~august/H303/currency/Justinian.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.tulane.edu/~august/H303/currency/Justinian.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I know some of us probably have theories and fantasies about how exactly our coins were used (buried by a soldier never to returned from battle, used by Jesus or Augustus, etc.). I like to think mine was used to pay for the bloody wars of reconquest out west, either directly sent to a soldier on the front lines (most times, especially during the Gothic War, payment was long overdue and soldiers could have fought years without being paid, which led to the rampant problems of plundering and desertion, which in turn contributed to the dragging out of the conflict in Italy for two decades), or even to help pay for the manufacture and/or procurement of war material.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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