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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 4861289, member: 91461&quot;]A coin&#039;s got speak to me and interest me to get my dollar. Used to be a time where I would just want coins from specific places, simply due to place regardless of time, circumstances or personalities (Holler if you hear me other one of every Augustus collectors!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1174010[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>With the year 695 CE in Rome, and by this time when I say Rome, I mean Constantinople<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />,&nbsp; ringing in what is referred to as &quot;The 20s year anarchy&quot;. It makes for the start of when I stopped enjoying Gibbon&#039;s Rise and Fall and fealt more like it was strictly educational<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie69" alt=":oldman:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1174035[/ATTACH] (ignore the Dickens, that&#039;s me reading about the eastern empire during this time period)</p><p><br /></p><p>Justinian II and leo 174 squabble with a bunch of wannabees. Very boring stuff... for me. </p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]Tpk4q_Zo2ws[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>Then in the land of Angles at this time&nbsp; BEOWULF is written!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1174039[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;We get the excellent writings of beloved historian and theologian, Bede<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie102" alt=":writer:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> (672-735 CE). Later to be named St Bede the venerable:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1174049[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The Viking attacks will begin and are just within 50 years of the horizon. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1174053[/ATTACH] </p><p>(this coins latest estimated mintage<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":jimlad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> My coin is preViking<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>Wihtred&#039;s reign begins in 692 CE, where he reestablishes the Kentish royal line.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie77" alt=":pompous:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>And during a lengthy reign, for any king, stayed alive all the way until he wasn&#039;t... 725!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I loved the simple design and mystery that comes with the unique obverse. Why was it slate (some kind if middle finger to the ruler of the time)? And who attempted to make markings of a rosette (same person)??</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1174034[/ATTACH] </p><p>Anglo-Saxon Coins - Continental Issues - Series D Type 2c - Obverse Erased Portrait Sceatta. 695-740 AD. Obv: original design erased and lightly engraved with five-leafed rosette. Rev: cross with pellet in angles and pseudo-legend. S. 792 (modified); N. 50 (ditto).0.62 grams.Property of a Hampshire, UK gentleman. </p><p>Fine. Very unusual. Ex Timeline</p><p><br /></p><p>Would love to read from any of our posters that have knowledge in these areas thoughts and you know I wanna see those coins!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1174036[/ATTACH] </p><p>Or anything that beats the eastern Roman empire at this time (unless you actually have a Roman coin from this time period<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />... didn&#039;t think so<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie65" alt=":meh:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />me neither)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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