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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 4047373, member: 44316&quot;]Excellent post!</p><p><br /></p><p>I enjoyed the 2007 book <i>Justinian&#039;s Flea</i> by William Rosen. It subtitle is &quot;Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe.&quot;&nbsp; It covers 284-664 CE, more than just the time of Justinian. I recommend it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1061367[/ATTACH] </p><p>Justinian. Sear 219. 40 nummia.</p><p>39-37 mm. (Large!) 22.53 grams. 6:00.</p><p>Year XG = 16 = 542/3.</p><p>&nbsp;Mintmark:&nbsp; CHEUPo, bar over the CH. Antioch = Theopolis mint.</p><p>&nbsp;Hahn 1454a. DO I 216</p><p><br /></p><p>This mintmark for Antioch is <b>only from year 16</b> and no coins with years 17, 18 or 19 were minted at Antioch, for reasons uncertain, but possibly because of the plague.</p><p><br /></p><p>For more about the tragedy of Antioch&#039;s decline, see this page about his mintmarks at Antioch:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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