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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Byzantine Coins| ▸ |Byzantine Mints| ▸ |Alexandria||View Options:   | | | The long closed mint at Alexandria reopened during the reign of Justin I. The great metropolis was lost to the Arabs in 646 and was never recovered by the Byzantine Empire. |
Justin was unable to hold the territory Justinian had restored. Most of Italy and parts of Spain were quickly lost to the Lombards and Visigoths. Refusal to pay tribute to the Sassanids, resulted in protracted war. The burdens of office drove him insane and his successor was regent for the last four years of his reign.SH90893. Gold solidus, Hahn MIB II 14 (Alexandria), SBCV 347A (Constantinople, but Alexandria noted as a possibility), Berk 63, DOC I -, aEF, small marks and scratches, weight 4.473 g, maximum diameter 20.6 mm, die axis 180o, Alexandria mint, c. 567 - 578 A.D.; obverse D N I-VSTI-NVS P P AVG, facing helmeted and cuirassed bust, Victory on globe in right, shield on left arm; reverse VICTORI-A AVCCC I, Constantinopolis enthroned facing, head right, long scepter in right hand, globus cruciger in left hand, staurogram left, •CONOB• in exergue; ex Heritage auction 3020 (6 Sep 2012), lot 25312; ex Nudelman Numismatica 10 (13 Jun 2011), lot 53; very rare; SOLD
Byzantine Empire, Justinian I, 4 April 527 - 14 November 565 A.D.
In 535 - 536 A.D., the world experienced the most severe and protracted short-term cooling episode in the last 2,000 years. The cooling is thought to have been caused by an extensive atmospheric dust veil, possibly resulting from a large volcanic eruption in the tropics, or debris from space impacting the Earth. Its effects were widespread, causing unseasonable weather, crop failures, and famines worldwide. The Byzantine historian Procopius recorded of 536, in his report on the wars with the Vandals, "during this year a most dread portent took place. For the sun gave forth its light without brightness...and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse, for the beams it shed were not clear." Crop failures were recorded in some areas until 539.BZ72158. Bronze six nummi, DOC I 275, Wroth BMC 347 - 348, Morrisson BnF I 20 - 22, Tolstoi 504 - 506, Sommer 4.116, Hahn MIB I 166, Berk 260, SBCV 248, Ratto 694, VF, nice for the type, weight 3.030 g, maximum diameter 15.4 mm, die axis 180o, Alexandria mint, obverse D N IVSTINI-ANVS P P AVG, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse large S; first example of this type handled by Forum!; rare; SOLD
Byzantine Empire, Justin I, 10 July 518 - 1 August 527 A.D.
Alexandria was founded c. 331 BC by Alexander the Great. It remained the capital of Hellenistic, Roman and then Byzantine Egypt for almost one thousand years until the Muslim conquest of Egypt in A.D. 641, when a new capital was founded at Fustat (later absorbed into Cairo).BZ39439. Bronze 12 nummi, DOC I 58; Ratto 435; Morrisson BnF p. 50; Hahn MIB 68; SBCV 112; Wroth BMC -; Tolstoi -, VF, weight 4.503 g, maximum diameter 16.5 mm, die axis 180o, Egypt, Alexandria mint, 518 - 527; obverse D N IVSTINVS P P AV, diademed and draped bust right; reverse large I B (12 nummi) with cross between, AΛE
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