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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...