As the Eastern Roman Empire emerged after the fall of the West, Byzantine coins were mainly comprised of two types of gold solidus coins and a range of bronze coins with clear values. At the time of ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed five gold coins dating to the time of the ... centuries A.D., when the area was part of the Byzantine Empire. During a recent expedition, archaeologists ...

"The majority of people living in the Roman empire would have rarely seen a single gold coin, let alone a collection of this many. "They were too high in value to be in common circulation ...

Up until now, the new Islamic empire had used hand-me-down coins from the pre-conquest era, or imported, and especially Byzantine, gold coins, but Abd al-Malik quickly saw what every chancellor of ...

ISBN: 0197549322 The Empire that Survived ... s History of the Byzantine State and Society (Stanford, 1997). The book includes fifteen well-executed and detailed maps, and numerous monochrome ...