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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 5254046, member: 95174&quot;]I get it [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] , I started collecting because of history, and no other reason, I started with Roman imperial and was eventually to Byzantine, not for religious reasons but simply it was a new frontier for coin collecting, a road less traveled, less books , more new finds and I also loved the idea the Roman Empire continued until 1453, making it an empire of 1500 plus years. </p><p>&nbsp;To be honest it would be boring if styles of art and portraiture did not change for 1500 years. However their are still similarities, coins still communicated a message , who was the ruler and the reverses have Saints with a message, waring saints is most common, much like the gods used on the reverse of earlier Roman coins. BUT Byzantine coins are like cats, they pick you , you don&#039;t pick them. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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