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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikjo0, post: 155098, member: 3565&quot;]Aidan,this coin was struck by one of Constantine the Great&#039;s sons, after Constantinople had become the seat of the empire,therefore Byzantine.Anything after 330 AD is Byzantine.I think where the confusion comes from is the fact that ALL coins struck in Rome,Constantinople and most western European cities (including London) were inscribed in pure Latin while the provincial coins from most other mints in the east and Balkans were often struck in Greek or half and half.</p><p>Here is a good timeline:</p><p><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Byzantium/time.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Byzantium/time.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Byzantium/time.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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