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<p>[QUOTE="The Meat man, post: 8408508, member: 135271"]A couple more I got in recently -</p><p><br /></p><p>My oldest Chinese coin to date. This one is from the Qin Dynasty, famous for the emperor Qin Shi Huang (259 - 210 B.C.), who upon his death was interred with an estimated 8,000 life-sized terracotta soldiers, as well as over 100 chariots and hundreds of life-sized terracotta horses. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1491565[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I don't know if I've posted this here before but it is my first Byzantine (or Romaion) coin. Justinian I (the Great), who is not only remembered for his code of laws, but also as the ruler who constructed the breath-takingly magnificent Hagia Sophia:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1491566[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="The Meat man, post: 8408508, member: 135271"]A couple more I got in recently - My oldest Chinese coin to date. This one is from the Qin Dynasty, famous for the emperor Qin Shi Huang (259 - 210 B.C.), who upon his death was interred with an estimated 8,000 life-sized terracotta soldiers, as well as over 100 chariots and hundreds of life-sized terracotta horses. [ATTACH=full]1491565[/ATTACH] I don't know if I've posted this here before but it is my first Byzantine (or Romaion) coin. Justinian I (the Great), who is not only remembered for his code of laws, but also as the ruler who constructed the breath-takingly magnificent Hagia Sophia: [ATTACH=full]1491566[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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