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Byzantine Gold Coins

Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Roman Empire to the former Byzantium in Thrace and renamed it Constantinopolis, present day Istanbul, Turkey. Numismatists, for convenience, have arbitrarily categorized coins from Anastasius I and after as Byzantine coins. Numismatists use Anastasius as the beginning of Byzantine because he dramatically reformed the bronze coinage. A significant minority of numismatists pick an earlier time and ruler, often Constantine the Great, as the dividing time between the Roman and Byzantine empires, because most coins were issued from Constantinople, or since it became the seat of government. Although the citizens generally spoke Greek, they considered themselves Roman for the entire Byzantine period, making our division of the empire an entirely modern convention.

Byzantine Empire, Constans II and Constantine IV, 13 April 654 - 15 July 668 A.D.

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On 8 May 663, the Byzantine army led by Constans II was defeated at the Battle of Forino by the Lombards under Romuald I. Romuald I seized Taranto and Brindisi. The Bulgar Alcek horde, Lombard allies in the battle, settled in the area of Ravenna. Human graves of a steppe-nomadic character as well as horse burials datable to the second half of the eighth century attest to the continued presence of the Bulgars in the Molise and Campania. In the lifetime of Paul the Deacon, he recorded that the descendants of these Bulgars still spoke their language, as well as Latin.
SH70071. Gold solidus, DOC II-2 30h; Morrisson BnF 62; Tolstoi 305; Ratto 1608; Hahn MIB 31; Sommer 12.23; SBCV 964; Wroth BMC -, EF, tight flan, weight 4.328 g, maximum diameter 19.0 mm, die axis 180o, 9th officina, Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) mint, c. 661 - 663 A.D.; obverse D N COI-N (blundered fragmentary legend), facing busts of Constans & Constantine IV, Constans wears plumed helmet, Constantine a helmet with cross, small cross between heads; reverse VICTORIA AVGY Θ (victory of the Emperor, 9th officina), cross potent on three steps between Heraclius (left) and Tiberius standing facing, each wears crown and chlamys and holds globus cruciger in right, CONOB in exergue; SOLD







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