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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 1776758, member: 44210&quot;]and I like it! (but not real plague though, that would really suck to have...)</p><p><br /></p><p>Reached a deal with a fellow CT member to acquire this, a 40 nummi follis of Justinian I, Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor. It&#039;s from year 14 of his reign, so 541 AD, the year before the plague named after him reached Constantinople and killed a large portion of the city&#039;s huge population, and devastated the rest of the empire. If the coin stayed circulating in the city at the time, who knows how many unlucky people held it before succumbing to the disease. Even Emperor Justinian himself contracted the plague, but lived.</p><p><br /></p><p>This outbreak also had a profound effect on his attempts to reestablish Roman control over the west, lost to the migrating Germanic tribes in the previous century. Roman control of Italy, (after capturing it from the Ostrogoths) for example, became very weak as a result (army getting infected, locals dying off, Italian economy getting hit bad), and adding to the devastation that the Gothic War had already brought to the peninsula.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I had been looking for a forward-facing Justinian follis (already have a facing decanummium) of good quality like this one for a good while until now. I had found a different one and I posted it on another forum but confirming my suspicions it was a fake, so this member offered to sell me this one (thanks friend!).</p><p><br /></p><p><u><b>Justinian I</b></u>, Byzantine emperor</p><p>AE Follis (40 nummi)</p><p>Obv: helmeted, cuirassed bust facing, holding cross on globe and shield, cross to right</p><p>Rev: Large M, ANNO to left, regnal year XIII to right, cross above, officina letter B below</p><p>CON in ex, Constantinople mint, struck 541 AD</p><p>Ref: SB 163</p><p>40.4 mm, 21.70 gr.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa429/LurkingNinja/JustiFollisCon_zps0e495ecb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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