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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 1879220, member: 44210&quot;]Hey Anoob, good seeing you again. Felt like I haven&#039;t seen you in forever!</p><p><br /></p><p>The Ostrogoths before them made a decent amount of coinage, not on the level of the Byzantines but apparently just enough to help keep the Italian economy going. I don&#039;t know for sure if there was a coin shortage, but if so, I suspect the war would have been a major contributing factor. Whatever the case, my new coin is an official Byzantine Rome issue. Before, the Ostrogoths had struck coins in the names of the eastern emperors, but usually had something (like a king&#039;s monogram) that indicated it was minted by <i>them</i> in Italy (I actually got an example of one of these today, which I&#039;ll share later). This was done to recognize the superiority of the Roman emperor over the Ostrogothic monarch. Now, after the Byzantine takeover of Italy, coinage was being made more in line with Byzantine standards, with only the emperor&#039;s image and name gracing the coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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