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Coins of Greece


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Random Romans


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Byzantine overstrikes


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Repeated use of recycled coins is a important part of establishing order of minting and establishing dates. Certainly with what is known as the Anonymous folles's from John I in 969 through Alexius I ending in 1118, overstrikes have been crucial to attempting to establish a pattern which is still subject to debate.

Following is a collection of overstrikes with identifiable under types.

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Ancient Coin and trade weights


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There is considerable debate on the exact weight of the Roman pound which is the ancestor of the Byzantine pound. Generally it has been proposed that the weight of the pound become slightly lighter over the years. Simon Bendall (Byzantine weights: an Introduction, 1996) mentions that in the Geneva Museum and the Munz Zentrum sales that a number of one pound weights varied between 324 gm and 280 gm. By about 1343 there is reasonable evidence that a pound was about 304 gm, after starting at around 327 gm and this number can be disputed.
Byzantine weights are for commercial which are in pounds, ounces or fractions, or are coin weights weighted as nomismata or solidi. Six nomismata were in an ounce, hence 72 to a pound. Complicating this is that there is evidence that possibly there was a provincial pound that was spit into 14 ounces rather than 12 ounces with seven nomismata instead of six.
Typically there are symbols associated with commercial weights, and those for coins. For a variety of reasons including archeological evidence, weights are considered to belong to the sixth and seventh centuries. Often weights bear a mark of value but little else, often these are thought to be household weights. Justinian I in 545 issued edicts for certain officials to be responsible for standards and that these weights were to be kept in a church in each city. Many weights espically round ones seem expertly made possibly from a centralized area of production, but the engraving seem at times crude, suggesting that they were then engraved locally. Square weights were adjusted by filing on the edges resulting at times in a rougher looking appearance.

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Byzantine/Roman artifacts


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A collections of odds and ends I have encountered over time. All of these have passed through my hands but many no longer remain.

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Anastasius I 491-518 CE


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After the death of the Emperor Zeno the widowed Empress Ariadne selected the court official Anastasius. Anastasius ruled for twenty-seven years, generally recognised as responsible for changes in the monetary system, and by accounts leaving the state treasury in much better condition than when he took office.

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Justin I 518-527 CE


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Justin I while in a career in the imperial army under Anastasius became commander of the excubitores in Constantinople. On the death of Anastasius he was chosen for succession. Most of his policy was developed by his nephew Justinian who suceed him on his death.

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Justin I and Justinian I April-August 527


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A few months before his death, Justin elevated his well educated, intelligent but somewhat thankless nephew Justinian to the rank of co-emperor.

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Justinian I 527-565 CE


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Justinian having had influence in his uncle's Justin imperial policy started on his own reign in 527 and for the next 38 years ruled the Byzantine Empire along with his wife Theodura. Despite the contoversy of Theoduro being a actress, she became a recognized leader in her own right. Famous for the building of the church of St. Sophia which still stands, Justinian also recovered North Africa from the Vandals and regained a footing in Spain for the last time. He codified Roman law which influenced jurisprudence for generations following.

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Justin II 565-578 CE


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Came to power after his uncle Justinian I died, and proceeded to lose much of the empire that Justinian had regained during his reign. Sophia his srong minded wife is accounted by some for much of his misrule. He raised one of his generals, Tiberius to the rank of Augustus and co-emperor and shortly afterwards died.

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Tiberius II Constantine 578-582 CE


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Tiberius became sole emperor nine days after Justin II's death. He continued with some sucess the war against the Persians. Tiberius married his daughter to one his generals named Maurice Tiberius, the next emperor

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Maurice Tiberius 582-602 CE


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Maurice Tiberius a general under Justin II and well known for his campaign against the Persions was a popular figure assuming power after Maurice Tiberius death. Soon however his neglect of state affairs and to the miltary caused his popularity to suffer. The army soon became disgruntled and he and his son Theodosis (his techincal co ruler) were overthrown and murdered. by Phocas.

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Phocas 602-610 CE


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After Maurice Tiberius and his entire family was murdered, Phocas crowned himself emperor. While launching a campaign of terror and muder to keep himself in power, he met with military disaster from both the east and west. The Exarch of Africa Heraclius, sent his son also called Heraclius to Constantinople with a fleet, seized and executed Phocas.
The coins of Phocas are unusual because they revive an interest in portraiture, which the engravers of the stylized portraits of most early Byzantine emperors had long ignored. In contrast to the busts of other sixth-century emperors, the portrait of Phocas emphasizes his barbarian heritage. His pointed beard and his straight, shaggy hair give him a distinctly foreign appearance, and he wears a simple crown and a military cloak, the paludamentum, fastened with a fibula or pin on the right shoulder. His beard set a precedent for most later emperors.

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Heraclius 610-641 CE


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After the nearly eight years of disastrous rule by Phocas, Heraclius , a former leading general under Maurice Tiberius and Exarch of Carthage took up arms against Phocas and his reign of terror. It however took two years before Heraclius son, of the same name finally was able to overtake Constantinople, depose Phocas and put him to death. Heraclius was 35, and unmarried, he shortly married an African girl name Fabia who died after they had a son and daughter. He ruled solely from 610-13 CE and then jointly with his infant son Heraclius Constantine. He remarried and had another son named Heraclonas who was named co-emperor in 638CE. Despite inheriting the disaster of his predecessor, Heraclius was able to crush the Persians and his campaigns in Persia are considered by some to be the most brilliant chapter in Byzantine history. Here ends what is considered the Justinianean period and begins the Heraclian period.

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Constans II 641-668 CE


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Constans II (son of Heraclius Constantine, first son of Heraclius) also known as Constantine III was elected emperor after a revolt overthrew his uncle Heracleonas who had been associate emperor and Augustus of Heraclius from 638. During his reign the Arabs continued their advance and Egypt was overcome the fall of 642. Constans elected his son Constantine co-emperor in 654. They conducted a campaign against the Slavs in the Balkans with some sucess, transporting large numbers of slavs to Asia Monor where they served in the army. He died in 668 after moving his imperial capital to Syracuse. He was murdered by a bath attendent (reportedly with a stone soap dish) and was suceeded by his son Constantine IV.

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Constantine IV, Pogonatus 668-685 CE


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Faced by a siege by caliph Muawija I, of Constantinople, he was the first to use the famous "greek fire:. Though it took four years, the Arabs were forced to retreat, which prevented the Muslim tide from sweeping over a infant Europe, a moment of great historical significance. Constantine deposed his two brothers, Heraclius and Tiberius, and ruled alone until his death in 685. He was succeeded by his 16 yr old son Justinian.

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Constantine V Copronymus 741-775 CE


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Nicephorus I 802-811 CE


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The first Roman emperor to fall in battle since Valens in 378. Prior his death he had reinstated a number of financial reforms which improved the empire. He had previously fought and pushed back the Bulgarians but when pursuing their leader Krum, he was ambushed and killed.

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Last additions - wileyc's Gallery
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AR Denier French feudal Souvigny Denier of Souvigny abbotts
Bust Of saint Mayeul (4th Abbot of Cluny born in 906 AD in Avignon, France. He died on May 11 994 AD at Souvigny)
Obv: SCS MAILOUS
Rev: + SILVINACO cross
Mint: Souvigny
Date:1080-1213 CE
19mm; .75g
Roberts 4913, Mayhew p44-78
wileycMar 08, 2023
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French Early Feudal County of GeinGeoffrey III Denier
Obv:Cross with a hammer in second quarter and a coin in third, GOESDVS COS
Rev:Monogram of Fulk, simplified,GIEMIS CΛ
Mint: Gien, france;
Some consider it to be an immobilized coinage in the name of Geoffrey II of Donzy (1055-1097), also minted under Hervé II of Donzy (1097-1121), Geoffrey III (1121-1158) and Hervé III of Donzy (1158-1187).
Date: 1120-1160
20mm; .90g
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wileycDec 21, 2022
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One solidi coin weight4.97g
11mm diameter
7mm thick
Gamma, dot, retrograde gamma. I in top right
wileycDec 08, 2022
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French Early Feudal Fulk IV-V 1069-1129Obv.: +FVLCO COMES starting at 3hr. cross pattée, omega in quadrant 3, alpha in quadrant 4
Rev.: + VRBS AIDCCSV. Around Fulk’s monogram
Mint.: Anjou
Fulk V or Geoffrey V, r. 1109-1129 or 1129-1151
Ref.: Duplessy 375, Roberts 4114
.82g, 17mm
wileycNov 30, 2022
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Andronicus II/Michael IX AE trachy SBCV 2438Obv:AVTOKPATOPEC RWMAIWN, Andronicus and Michael standing facing, holding cross-in-circle on long staff between them.
Rev: Two concentric circles bisected by three vertical lines
Mint: Thessalonica mint.
Date; 1295-1320
SBCV 2458, GR 1462
21mm, 1.46g
wileycNov 30, 2022
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French Early Feudal Anonymous Counts of BearnR: +ONOR FOCAS
A over P+=PAX
Obv: CENTVLLO COMES
Mint:Bearn
Date: 905-1134
.35g
11mm
R.4182
wileycNov 27, 2022
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Anonymous Folles Class G, sbcv 1867Attributed to Romanus IV
Obv: IC-XC to left and right of bust of Christ, nimbate, facing, right hand raised, scroll in left, all within border of large dots
Rev: MP-ΘV to left and right of Mary, nimbate, hands raised, all inside border of large dots.
Mint- Constantinople
Date 1068-1071
sbcv 1867
5.85g, 28mm
wileycNov 23, 2022
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Manuel I AE half tetarteronObv:P-over-w GIOC to left of bust facing of St. George, unbearded, nimbate, wearing tunic, cuirass and cloak, holding spear and shield
Rev: MANVHΛ ΔECΠOTH (or MANOVHΛ ΔEC), crowned, unbearded bust facing of Manuel, wearing loros, holding labarum and cross on globe.
Mint:greek mint
sbvc 1980
18mm, 1.94g
wileycNov 23, 2022
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Annonymous Count of LaMarche denier, early feudal R: cross;LODOICVS
Obv: Cresent above cross and three annulets, EGOLISSIME
Mint: La Marche county
Date:12-13th c
.91g, 20mm
Roberts 4361
1 commentswileycNov 21, 2022
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Andronicus II/Michaek IX Copper Assyria sbcv 2435Obv: Half length fogure of Andronicus and Michael with Christ in center crowning them.
Rev: Bust of Archangel Michael
Mint: Constantinople
Date: 1295-1320
SBCV 2435 Gr. 1484
1.25g, 20mm
wileycNov 16, 2022
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Andronicus II AE TrachyObv:Lg patririarchal cross, lg reverse B, in L. field
Rev: Andronicus stg, holding cross in circle left, palaogian monogram above, star to lower r.
Mint: Thessalonica
date: 1282-1328
1.43g, 22mm
SBVC 2383
Thanks to Ross Glanfield of Glebe coins for assistance in ID.
wileycNov 14, 2022
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FRANCE, Carolingian, Charles the Bald, (840-875), silver denierobv. cross in circle, CINOMANIS CIVITAS
rev. KRLS monogram, CIVIONIS CIVITS
Mint: Le Mans
Date: 84-887
1.44g,21mm
Roberts 1414
wileycNov 14, 2022

Random files - wileyc's Gallery
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AE trachy (broken) Andronicus Palaeologus III SB 2492Obverse: Bust of Archangel Michael(?)
Reverse: Half-length figure of Andronicus holding a globus in each hand
Mint: Thessalonica
Date: 1328-1341 CE
Sear 2492
18mm .68 gm
wileyc
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AE half follis Justin I SB 104Obverse: DNIVSTINVS PP AVG Diad., dr. and cuir but r. sometimes with cross above head.
Reverse: Large K; to L., long cross dividing AN above and TX below: to r. officina letter B
Mint: Antioch
Date: 518-527 CE
Sear 104, DO 50
23mm 6.86 gm
wileyc
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AE follis Justinian I SB 158Obverse: DN IVSTINIANVS PP AVG, pearl diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right
Reverse: Large M. star to left, cross above, cross right, officina letter below "gamma"
Date: 527-565 CE
Mints: Constantinople
Sear 158, DOC 28
31mm, 17.68gg
wileyc

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