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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;furryfrog02, post: 6303415, member: 41219&quot;]I was perusing the internet last night as I am prone do doing when I came across a book on Byzantine coinage called &quot;Byzantine Coins&quot; by P.D. Whitting. Everything I read on it made it sound like a pretty solid book so I jumped on ebay and did a search.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1249815[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Imagine my surprise when I found one for sale whose auction was closing in 2 hours and had zero bids. Not only that, it was just down the road from me in Annapolis, MD! I popped my $24.95 bid on it and went to bed. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was happy to see that I won it in the morning and I promptly paid. Then I received a message from the seller saying that he was going to be in my town this afternoon and could drop it off. Why the heck not?!</p><p><br /></p><p>He didn&#039;t specify a time he would drop it off and I happened to be out getting dinner when he stopped by. I would&#039;ve liked to thank him in person. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not only did he drop the book off, but he added a National Geographic magazine from 1983 (before I was born) with an article about Byzantium. It has a beautiful fold out map of the Byzantine empire.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1249816[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1249810[/ATTACH] </p><p>I am looking forward to reading through this and adding to my knowledge of Byzantine coinage. There are tons of illustrations and color pictures to ogle. Online resources have been wonderful but there is definitely something about holding a book in your hands.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1249814[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1249813[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1249812[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1249811[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s see your favorite physical resources or share some online ones that you particularly like. Of course, feel free to post some of those beautiful ugly Byzantines!</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and I will add a coin as well. It was listed as &quot;unidentified byzantine coin&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was able to do some research and find that it was:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Michael II and Theophilus</p><p>AE Follis</p><p>820-829 AD</p><p>Syracuse</p><p>Obverse: mIXAHL S ThOE, Michael, wearing crown and chlamys with short beard on the left and Theophilus, wearing crown and loros, no beard, on the right, busts facing </p><p>Reverse:&nbsp; Large M, cross above, theta below</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1249818[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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