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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikjo0, post: 208276, member: 3565&quot;]Thanks Doug,</p><p>Very true but from what I&#039;ve read,most experts have Anastasius as the first true Byzantine Emperor.</p><p>There is a lot of dispute about this but David Sear,Wayne Sayles,Rudnik Numismatics and Wildwinds all begin with him.</p><p><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/byz/i.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/byz/i.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/byz/i.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/romaion/romaion.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/romaion/romaion.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/romaion/romaion.html</a></p><p>Wikipedia has a pretty good article that discusses this here:</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire</a></p><p>I believe it had something to do with the fact that Constantinople acheived complete supremacy over the empire&nbsp; around this time..I&#039;m not sure though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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