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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Late Empire| > |Anastasius I| > SH17770
Anastasius, 11 April 491 - 1 July 518 A.D.
|Anastasius| |I|, |Anastasius,| |11| |April| |491| |-| |1| |July| |518| |A.D.|, "The Bulgarians, descendants of the Huns, invaded the Empire in 499, 502, and again in 517. Anastasius' response was to build yet another set of walls for Constantinopolis (its third) sometime between 499 and 507. This eleven-foot-thick wall, called the Long Wall, was built forty miles west of the capital and ran forty-one miles from the Propontis to the Pontus Euxinus (Black Sea)." - Moneta Historical Reference
SH17770. Gold solidus, SBCV 3, DOC I 3f, nice VF, Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) mint, weight 4.423g, maximum diameter 20.0mm, die axis 180o, c. 491 - 498 A.D.; obverse D N ANASTA-SIVS P P AVC, helmeted and cuirassed bust facing slightly right, helmet with plume, trefoil ornament and diadem, spear in right hand and behind head, shield on left arm ornamented with mounted cavalryman right attacking prostrate enemy; reverse VICTORI-A AVCCC S, Victoria standing left, long jeweled cross in right resting on ground; star right, CONOB in exergue; from the Woolslayer Collection; SOLD










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