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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Conduitt, post: 8231504, member: 109923&quot;]The obvious answer (which tends to be the only one I know) is that Anastasius&#039;s monetary reform was the first after the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, which finally disappeared in 476. The coins with the large Ms on the back are therefore distinctively Byzantine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Diocletian wasn&#039;t a &#039;Byzantine&#039; emperor, he was emperor of the whole Roman Empire, so his coin reform was seen in the West as much as the East. The Western Empire didn&#039;t dwindle immediately - it was still there in the early 400s, with coins struck there by Arcadius (Arles, Milan, Rome, Trier) like your example.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Honorius Siliqua, 407-408</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447173[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Rome. Silver, 1g (RIC X 1267).</b> Found Cambridgeshire.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nice coins and write up, by the way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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