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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4904973, member: 85693"]Very interesting indeed. </p><p><br /></p><p>Late Roman Bronze coins did circulate in the East for much longer, apparently. An earthquake (or Persian invasion?) in Sardis c. 617 A.D. wiped out a bunch of shops, including money in the till, which included a lot of Byzantine folles, of course, but also a lot of Roman bronzes. In fact 50% of the coins found were pre-491 A.D. Roman. </p><p><br /></p><p>A while back I posted my source for this, J. Stephens Crawford's book <i>The Byzantine Shops are Sardis</i>: </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-circulation-in-late-antiquity-the-byzantine-shops-at-sardis.352035/#post-3950208" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-circulation-in-late-antiquity-the-byzantine-shops-at-sardis.352035/#post-3950208">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-circulation-in-late-antiquity-the-byzantine-shops-at-sardis.352035/#post-3950208</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4904973, member: 85693"]Very interesting indeed. Late Roman Bronze coins did circulate in the East for much longer, apparently. An earthquake (or Persian invasion?) in Sardis c. 617 A.D. wiped out a bunch of shops, including money in the till, which included a lot of Byzantine folles, of course, but also a lot of Roman bronzes. In fact 50% of the coins found were pre-491 A.D. Roman. A while back I posted my source for this, J. Stephens Crawford's book [I]The Byzantine Shops are Sardis[/I]: [URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-circulation-in-late-antiquity-the-byzantine-shops-at-sardis.352035/#post-3950208[/URL][/QUOTE]
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