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<p>[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 4159070, member: 87200"]I like Byzantine coins and the schismatic history that goes along with them. You read about the fiendish Justinian in Procopius, the panegyric of Anna Comnena in the "Alexiad" about Alexius Comnenus, and the great contortions of the state and society whether you are talking about the blues and green factions in the hippodrome or the battles between the iconoclasts and the iconodules over the nature of religious artistic expression. We go from cartoonish coins (probably Constans II folles are the worst) to sublime portraits of Christ with the gospels in the anonymous coins. We witness a society's transformation over the course of more than 1,000 years of continuous existence. Heck, our society in the U.S. since the time of the Constitution has changed dramatically, who knows if we will still be minting coins and issuing bills in 740 years, or even if we will last that long as a nation. That said, I primarily focus on Roman Imperials.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1073186[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1073187[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 4159070, member: 87200"]I like Byzantine coins and the schismatic history that goes along with them. You read about the fiendish Justinian in Procopius, the panegyric of Anna Comnena in the "Alexiad" about Alexius Comnenus, and the great contortions of the state and society whether you are talking about the blues and green factions in the hippodrome or the battles between the iconoclasts and the iconodules over the nature of religious artistic expression. We go from cartoonish coins (probably Constans II folles are the worst) to sublime portraits of Christ with the gospels in the anonymous coins. We witness a society's transformation over the course of more than 1,000 years of continuous existence. Heck, our society in the U.S. since the time of the Constitution has changed dramatically, who knows if we will still be minting coins and issuing bills in 740 years, or even if we will last that long as a nation. That said, I primarily focus on Roman Imperials. [ATTACH=full]1073186[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1073187[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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