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Message:: [QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 2447141, member: 44316"]I like Justinian coins minted at Antioch. There were major earthquakes that changed the region, the coinage, and even the name of the mint! <a href="http://esty.ancients.info/interesting/Justinian.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/interesting/Justinian.html" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/interesting/Justinian.html</a> [ATTACH=full]511055[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]511056[/ATTACH] Justinian, 527-565 AD. Struck year 13 at Antioch, renamed Theopolis "City of God" for reasons explained at the website above.Sear 218B.   40-nummia.   39 mm, 20.77 grams.   Mintmark: θVΠO Part of the reason the "Twelve Caesars" are popular is that an ancient author wrote a book with lots of gossip about them, so they are individually interesting in a way that many, say, third century emperors are not. Justinian is interesting for the same reason the Twelve Caesars are. An ancient author wrote two books about his reign, one loaded with gossip!  Procopius wrote "The Wars of Justinian" which is a typical history. It is his "Secret Lives" which tells stories of the private lives of Justinian and his wife Theodora. If you can pull yourself away from the internet for a few hours, read these two books (free from the library?) and you will want a coin (or many!) of Justinian. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopius" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopius</a>[/QUOTE]

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