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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herberto, post: 25261570, member: 74222&quot;]From this: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/late-roman-coins-during-byzantine-era.379004/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/late-roman-coins-during-byzantine-era.379004/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/late-roman-coins-during-byzantine-era.379004/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;....The bronze coins of Constantine were almost certainly demonetized with the <i>Fel</i> <i>Temp</i> <i>Reparatio</i> reform of 348. We know from a law of Constans and Julian preserved in the <i>Codex</i> <i>Theodosianus</i> that the penalties for using &quot;prohibited&quot; coins were potentially severe. This is not to say that decades or even centuries later, obsolete coins did not sometimes return to circulation on a very limited basis....&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The Theodosian AE4 nummus was effectively the only circulating bronze coin of the 5th century and was the basis of the reformed coinage of Anastasius...[...]&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;....we know from the Codex Theodosianus that the Constantinian bronze coinage had been demonetized at some point between 348 and 356. We also know that a law of 395, likewise preserved in the Codex Theodosianus, removed large bronzes from circulation, leaving the tiny AE4 as essentially the only bronze coin in circulation until the reform of Anastasius in 498....&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And I apologize if I&#039;ve made a mistake by misreading it. English is my third language.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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