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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3293273, member: 44316&quot;]I like Byzantine coins of Justinian (527-565) from Antioch because of the great story of the tragic earthquakes and the renaming of the city from Antioch to Theopolis (city of God), sometimes spelled Theoupolis, which led to there being a wide variety of different mintmarks. The story is here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I recently added this unusual coin to the site:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]871071[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Justininan. 39 mm. Large! Year 16 = 542/3.</p><p>The mintmark is known only from year 16 and </p><p>CHEUPO&nbsp; (bar above the H) has a good part of THEOUPOLIS in it but the &quot;C&quot; part has defied explanation. No folles with years 17, 18 or 19 were minted, for reasons unknown. (No coins of years 14 or 15 were either, but we think we know why. See the site!) </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is here:</p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html#SB219" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html#SB219" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html#SB219</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Sear 219. Do 216. Hahn 144a.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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