My First Ever Byzantines

Yeah, steve's first coin is not byzantine, nor arab byzantine. Its one of only two issues of sassanid byzantine. They made that one,( i have one as well), and a larger of similar design, (which a friend has and i am trying to get).

They are from a very interesting time when the sassanids were about to defeat the byzantines totally. Then khusro II made two major mistakes, he enraged the parthian nobility the army turned against him, and he changed the security structure on the sw border. The army turned around and killed him, and the arabs overrun the unguarded border.

 

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He better not. Its not byzantine. Maybe a special page for it.

Still think a poster of parthian and sassanid rulers would be cool Ras. I think i suggested that to you about a decade ago.

 

When I saw this coin on Ebay in March 2007 I had to have it.

The figure on the coin looked to me like a movie space alien,
and not a friendly one.



Coin details:
Byzantine Justinian AE Follis
Obverse: Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right
D N IVSTINIANVS PP AVG
Reverse: Large letter "M", star left, cross top and right, gamma under "M"
Exergue: CON (Constantinople mint)
Catalog: Sear 158 - Struck AD 527-538 - Size 30mm

Last year, I managed to visit the place where it was made in Istanbul.

 

HERACLIUS AE 40 nummi follis
Struck at Syracuse, Sicily
Overstruck on a large follis of Anastasius from Constantinople

circa 622 AD or earlier
Diameter: 33.5mm
Weight: 13.6g
Obverse: Facing bust of Heraclius, monogram-cross beside, all within 9mm countermarked circle, bust of Anastasius clearly identifiable underneath
Reverse Large M from original undertype, mintmark CON overstamped with SCLS mintmark.

HOST COIN - ANASTASIUS I AE 40 nummi follis. Constantinople mint, circa 512-517 AD. D N ANASTASIVS P P AVG, pearl diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right. Reverse - Large M, star to left, cross above, star to right, A below. Mintmark CON. SB 16, DOC 20a. Countermark S 884

Heraclius overstruck 40 nummi folles on earlier coinage, dating from the time of Anastasius to Justin II, at Syracusae, Sicilia, as part of a renewed focus on the island's importance as a strategic base.

... ummm, how 'bout this one?? (*sigh* ... I'm gonna go ta bed)

 

Very interesting coin.

 

Very cool Coin..

And def Byzantine!