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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1776877, member: 26302&quot;]Maybe my favorite ancient coin I own. I got mine years ago as part of a Byzantine group lot. I recognized it immediately because I had just saw a pic of one in Byzantine Coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cool addition. This one is a poster child for how the story is even cooler than the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, I disagree with the date. Most have this before Theodoric, issued under the Senate while ruled by the Ostrogoths.</p><p><br /></p><p>You also didn&#039;t go into what might be the coolest story aboit this coin. At the time the roman world only had gold and tiny little nummi. Rome, down to maybe only 30k citizens and ruled by german barbarians, nevertheless had the wisdom and foresight to create a new denomination of 40 nummi. It was she, not Constantinople, who would give the world the new denomination that would serve as a world standard for centuries to come.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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