There is a new publication on Early
Byzantine Copper Coins that I just came across online. It is an excellent new resource and the entire book can be downloaded in PDF format at -
www.byzantine-ae.info. You can contact the author via a contact form at the bottom of the
home page (he would like to hear from visitors).
From the website...
EARLY
BYZANTINE COPPER COINS
CATALOGUE OF AN ENGLISH
COLLECTIONThis site aims to inform collectors and students of
Byzantine base metal coins issued in the period between the monetary reform of
Anastasius I (491-518) and that of
Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118).
The
collection described was formed between 1982 and 2015 and is ongoing in certain specific areas.
“Early
Byzantine Copper Coins” will be published in book form later in 2016. The first printing (of 100) comprises presentation copies only.
Contents include the following:
The Foreword(s) describe the circumstances of the formation of the
collection and the fascination of this series. There is a lengthy Introduction to the
catalogue itself which includes some observations on collecting and studying
Byzantine copper, a guide to understanding the
catalogue entries, and a short bibliography.
There are 38 chapters which, in a largely conventional way, attribute the coins either by reign (there are two chapters each on the coinage of
Justinian I and that of
Maurice, and three on that of
Heraclius) or by issuing authority. Much of the latter is necessarily speculative, encompassing
military issues and emergency and necessity issues from the attempted recovery of parts of Western Europe under
Justinian I and
his immediate successors, the 20 year conflict with
Persia (610-630), and the conquest of large parts of the Eastern Empire by the Arabs.
Two short chapters describe coins in the
collection struck by the Germanic Kingdoms and by the Umayyad rulers of Bilad al-Sham and
North Africa.
Chapters 39 to 42 inclusive incorporate a number of both published and unpublished papers.