Ninth & Tenth Centuries: The Byzantines Never Got A Break

BOB REIS

I had a customer who had built a pretty good Roman Imperial people collection. A coin for every emperor and family member. He sold it to me. It was pretty complete; he was missing about five people. He also had a Byzantine collection. He called it his Romaion collection, which was technically a better name, seeing as that’s what they called themselves. They tended to speak Greek rather than Latin. He was missing about thirteen people. I went looking for them for him. I couldn’t find them at all. We’re marching through the Byzantine Empire period of Turkish history, which is appropriate because that’s what Turkey was for a thousand years. We think of them as different from the Romans, but they didn’t. They thought they were the Roman Empire, continued. The…

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World Coin News (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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