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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 7415419, member: 85693"]The shops at Sardis were destroyed around 617 A.D. (possibly by Persians). In the ruins, thousands of coins were found by archaeologists. Lots of Byzantine coins, of course, since this was Byzantine territory, but also lots of little Late Roman Bronze coins that were a couple hundred years old then - in fact about half of the coins found were Roman (pre-491 A.D.).</p><p><br /></p><p>A while back I posted excerpts from the findings:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-circulation-in-late-antiquity-the-byzantine-shops-at-sardis.352035/#post-3950208" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-circulation-in-late-antiquity-the-byzantine-shops-at-sardis.352035/#post-3950208">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/co...yzantine-shops-at-sardis.352035/#post-3950208</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 7415419, member: 85693"]The shops at Sardis were destroyed around 617 A.D. (possibly by Persians). In the ruins, thousands of coins were found by archaeologists. Lots of Byzantine coins, of course, since this was Byzantine territory, but also lots of little Late Roman Bronze coins that were a couple hundred years old then - in fact about half of the coins found were Roman (pre-491 A.D.). A while back I posted excerpts from the findings: [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-circulation-in-late-antiquity-the-byzantine-shops-at-sardis.352035/#post-3950208']https://www.cointalk.com/threads/co...yzantine-shops-at-sardis.352035/#post-3950208[/URL][/QUOTE]
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