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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2884247, member: 44316&quot;]I love Byzantine AE and Justinian at Antioch is my favorite theme among them. I wrote a page about the tragic history of Antioch at the time of Justinian:</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.h</a>tml </p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite coin on the page is this one:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]691812[/ATTACH] </p><p>Sear 218B. 40-nummia.</p><p>39 mm, 20.77 grams. </p><p>Mintmark: θVΠO on a large follis of year 13.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reform which yielded this new, larger, coin started in year 12 at Constantinople but did not begin at Antioch until year 13 and none were issued in year 14 (probably due to the invasion of Khusru mentioned on the web page). The mintmark switched to Latin in year 16 (see the next coin on the web page), so, this short-version mintmark was used only in year 13 making this a one-year type.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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