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<p>[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 7531903, member: 87200"]Thanks for the write-up. I was fortunate to take a class from one of the foremost Byzantine scholars when he was in residence at Berkeley, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Treadgold" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Treadgold" rel="nofollow">Warren Treadgold</a>. It was a very enjoyable and intellectually stimulating experience. Of particular interest to me was the ebb and flow of the fortunes of the Empire over the centuries. Threatened with destruction in the 7th century, rising to new heights of power in the 9th and 10th centuries, decline in the 11th century, a revival under Alexius Comnenus and then a final descent into weakness and elimination in the 15th century at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, who had become too strong to repel. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'll offer up a gold coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine X Ducas, 1059-1067.</p><p><br /></p><p>AV Histamenon Nomisma. (AV, 28 mm, 4.41 g, 5 h), Constantinople. +IhS XIS RЄX RЄςNANTҺIm Christ, nimbate, seated facing on square-backed throne, wearing tunic and pallium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. Rev. +KωN RAC Λ O ΔOVKAC Constantine X standing facing, wearing crown and loros, holding labarum in his right hand and globus cruciger in his left. DOC 1a. SB 1847.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/constantinex-jpg.1262653/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 7531903, member: 87200"]Thanks for the write-up. I was fortunate to take a class from one of the foremost Byzantine scholars when he was in residence at Berkeley, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Treadgold']Warren Treadgold[/URL]. It was a very enjoyable and intellectually stimulating experience. Of particular interest to me was the ebb and flow of the fortunes of the Empire over the centuries. Threatened with destruction in the 7th century, rising to new heights of power in the 9th and 10th centuries, decline in the 11th century, a revival under Alexius Comnenus and then a final descent into weakness and elimination in the 15th century at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, who had become too strong to repel. I'll offer up a gold coin. Constantine X Ducas, 1059-1067. AV Histamenon Nomisma. (AV, 28 mm, 4.41 g, 5 h), Constantinople. +IhS XIS RЄX RЄςNANTҺIm Christ, nimbate, seated facing on square-backed throne, wearing tunic and pallium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. Rev. +KωN RAC Λ O ΔOVKAC Constantine X standing facing, wearing crown and loros, holding labarum in his right hand and globus cruciger in his left. DOC 1a. SB 1847. [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/constantinex-jpg.1262653/[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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