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<p>[QUOTE="Multatuli, post: 3158114, member: 89266"]Indeed. But that is if we consider until the monetary reform of Alexius I, in 1034. I don't see as many difficulties in finding gold byzantine fourrées of solidii in the market (not that they are common), but personally, never saw of histamenons (introduced shortly before the monetary reform) , aspron trachii or hyperpyrons. The Roman gold coinage of the fourth and fifth centuries in my view is a continuum with Byzantine coinage, even considering Anastasius' reforms in 498.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>We must consider that the Byzantine gold coinage was not restricted to the empire alone. By contrast, Byzantine gold, until to the Venetian rise, was the international monetary standard in the Mediterranean and Levant, just as the English pound was in the nineteenth-twentieth century and the dollar is still today. Many local gold coins were minted imitating the Byzantine solidus pattern, the so-called bezants. That is to say, in the practice of international commerce, just as with counterfeiting dollars, euros, and pounds today would naturally falsify the coins, and of course, one would try to push them toward someone more unaware. I do not believe that all gold coins, especially in large quantities, in trade between caravans, merchants based in Constantinople, or any other city of the empire could not go unnoticed, especially if well made.</p><p>The natural problem of the golden fourrées is that it is enough a little peeled to denounce them, ending the party. But until then, the forger will be rich and far away from there. That is to say, they were not restricted to being stuck in the local commerce, or even in some division of the Byzantine Treasure, where surely the control would be much greater and the risk of the forger to lose the head as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Multatuli, post: 3158114, member: 89266"]Indeed. But that is if we consider until the monetary reform of Alexius I, in 1034. I don't see as many difficulties in finding gold byzantine fourrées of solidii in the market (not that they are common), but personally, never saw of histamenons (introduced shortly before the monetary reform) , aspron trachii or hyperpyrons. The Roman gold coinage of the fourth and fifth centuries in my view is a continuum with Byzantine coinage, even considering Anastasius' reforms in 498. We must consider that the Byzantine gold coinage was not restricted to the empire alone. By contrast, Byzantine gold, until to the Venetian rise, was the international monetary standard in the Mediterranean and Levant, just as the English pound was in the nineteenth-twentieth century and the dollar is still today. Many local gold coins were minted imitating the Byzantine solidus pattern, the so-called bezants. That is to say, in the practice of international commerce, just as with counterfeiting dollars, euros, and pounds today would naturally falsify the coins, and of course, one would try to push them toward someone more unaware. I do not believe that all gold coins, especially in large quantities, in trade between caravans, merchants based in Constantinople, or any other city of the empire could not go unnoticed, especially if well made. The natural problem of the golden fourrées is that it is enough a little peeled to denounce them, ending the party. But until then, the forger will be rich and far away from there. That is to say, they were not restricted to being stuck in the local commerce, or even in some division of the Byzantine Treasure, where surely the control would be much greater and the risk of the forger to lose the head as well.[/QUOTE]
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