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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 2225590, member: 26302"]Constantinople was almost always the main mint except in very limited circumstances. Nikomedia, Antioch (Theupolis), and Kyzikos were the next "main mints". Alexandria, Cherson, Syracuse, Rome, Ravenna all minted at times, but being further from the center of the empire were very much more sporadic. Like Doug said, its all intertwined with the history of what was happening at the time.</p><p> </p><p>Those goofy Alexandria denominations were a North African phenomenon. The Visigoths in North Africa also had the weird denominations. I would guess it was to fit Byzantine coinage into a preexisting coinage system, but have never researched the issue very far. Cherson also had a couple of unusual denominations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 2225590, member: 26302"]Constantinople was almost always the main mint except in very limited circumstances. Nikomedia, Antioch (Theupolis), and Kyzikos were the next "main mints". Alexandria, Cherson, Syracuse, Rome, Ravenna all minted at times, but being further from the center of the empire were very much more sporadic. Like Doug said, its all intertwined with the history of what was happening at the time. Those goofy Alexandria denominations were a North African phenomenon. The Visigoths in North Africa also had the weird denominations. I would guess it was to fit Byzantine coinage into a preexisting coinage system, but have never researched the issue very far. Cherson also had a couple of unusual denominations.[/QUOTE]
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