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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8265519, member: 110504&quot;]Very nice, [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER].&nbsp; </p><p>...The whole question of Byzantines being medieval and/or ancient sets off a familiar set of synapses.&nbsp; I have to come back to the notion of such labels being terms of convenience, first and foremost, whether in numismatics or history more broadly.&nbsp; It&#039;s always best to start by seeing a given chronological spectrum in its richly ambiguous totality.&nbsp; &#039;Punctuating&#039; it with specific dividing lines is necessarily a secondary part of the process.</p><p>You and [USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER]&#039;s Prague groschens make me miss the one I got of John the Blind, who famously died at the Battle of Crecy in 1346.&nbsp; (The chronicler Froissart describes how his horse was led into battle by several grooms, and how he allegedly used one of those maces with a spiked ball on a chain, just swinging it around until it caught something.)&nbsp; ...This was early in my collecting of medievals, when I was still subject to occasional rent emergencies; the groschen was a casualty.</p><p>The story of the maona of Chios is fascinating.&nbsp; A textbook example of the economic and political sophistication of these folks, as of the 14th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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