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<p>[QUOTE="Voulgaroktonou, post: 4514218, member: 84047"]A beautiful write up and you touch on some interesting salient points - I really enjoyed it. Thanks! And nice to tie in that reminder of Giovanni Giustiniani! </p><p><br /></p><p>However, for myself, I will always consider Constantine XI the last Roman emperor. But I offer the following anecdote that carries the concept even closer to our own date. Many years ago I attended a lecture by a Greek "Byzantine" historian who told of an event that led him to his profession. He was a child on a Greek island when it was liberated from the Turks in the 19th c. He related how, as the Greek marines were jumping from their boats onto the shore, he, like the local populace, was waiving a Greek flag and was shouting "Οι Ελληνες, Οι Ελληνες" - "The Greeks, the Greeks!". He said that a marine came up to him and replied "Δεν είμαστε Ελληνες, είμαστε Ρωμαίοι." = "we are not Greeks, we are Romans." It was that sense of continuity that propelled him into a life of scholarship of the Eastern Roman empire. And so, in tribute to that spirit, here are my 2 little coins of Constantine XI.</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine XI. Constantinople. 1449/53. Eighth Stavraton. 0.63 gr. 12.7 mm. hr. 11. Sear -; DO 1789. Bendall, “The coinage of Constantine XI” (Revue Numismatique 1991, pp. 134-142), #110 (this coin).</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine XI. Constantinople. 1449/53. Eighth Stavraton. 0.63 gr. 13 mm. hr. 12. Sear -; DO 1789. Bendall, “The coinage of Constantine XI” (Revue Numismatique 1991, pp. 134-142), #129 (this coin).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1118496[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Voulgaroktonou, post: 4514218, member: 84047"]A beautiful write up and you touch on some interesting salient points - I really enjoyed it. Thanks! And nice to tie in that reminder of Giovanni Giustiniani! However, for myself, I will always consider Constantine XI the last Roman emperor. But I offer the following anecdote that carries the concept even closer to our own date. Many years ago I attended a lecture by a Greek "Byzantine" historian who told of an event that led him to his profession. He was a child on a Greek island when it was liberated from the Turks in the 19th c. He related how, as the Greek marines were jumping from their boats onto the shore, he, like the local populace, was waiving a Greek flag and was shouting "Οι Ελληνες, Οι Ελληνες" - "The Greeks, the Greeks!". He said that a marine came up to him and replied "Δεν είμαστε Ελληνες, είμαστε Ρωμαίοι." = "we are not Greeks, we are Romans." It was that sense of continuity that propelled him into a life of scholarship of the Eastern Roman empire. And so, in tribute to that spirit, here are my 2 little coins of Constantine XI. Constantine XI. Constantinople. 1449/53. Eighth Stavraton. 0.63 gr. 12.7 mm. hr. 11. Sear -; DO 1789. Bendall, “The coinage of Constantine XI” (Revue Numismatique 1991, pp. 134-142), #110 (this coin). Constantine XI. Constantinople. 1449/53. Eighth Stavraton. 0.63 gr. 13 mm. hr. 12. Sear -; DO 1789. Bendall, “The coinage of Constantine XI” (Revue Numismatique 1991, pp. 134-142), #129 (this coin). [ATTACH=full]1118496[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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