The Changing Iconography of Byzantine Gold Coins
The Changing Iconography of Byzantine Gold Coins The Byzantine Empire, which lasted more than a thousand years, had one of the most monetized economies in medieval Europe. The coinage of Byzantium was an essential element of this unique civilization, which preserved Roman law and state structures and inherited not only the Hellenistic cultural tradition, but also a powerful organizing force– Christianity. Constantine I (306–337). At the accession of the emperor Anastasius I (491–518), there were three denominations of gold coins: the solidus (in Greek, semissis (half) and tremiss...
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