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Up to 700 AD

The Roman Empire lived on in the East as Byzantine Empire for another 1000 years until 1453 AD, when Constantinopolis was finally conquered by the Ottoman Turks under Mehmed the Conqueror (nomen est omen).
Most below coins are from the outstanding Ars Classica auction of Dec 2002, and from the Lanz Auction 123, May 2005.
 
  • Basiliscus (475-476 AD)
  • Basiliscus & Marcus (475-476)
  • Zeno (476-491 AD, second reign)
  • Zeno and Leo Caesar, 476-477 AD
  • Leontius (484 - 488)
  • Anastasius, 491-518 AD
  • Justinus I, 518-527
  • Justinus I and Justinianus, 527
  • Justinianus, 527-565
  • Justinus II (565-578)
  • Tiberius II Constantinus (578-583)
  • Mauricius Tiberius (582-602)
  • Phocas (602-610)
  • Heraclius (610-641) with his 2 sons, 638-9
  • Constans II with his 3 sons, 654-659
  • Justinianus II first reign 685-695, second 705-711
  • Basiliscus (475-476 AD, solidus)

     

    Basiliscus & Marcus (475-476)


     

    Zeno (476-491 AD, second reign), Eastern Empire, AE4 and Solidus

    Zeno and Leo Caesar, 476-477 AD, Solidus

     

    Leontius(484 - 488)
      Image from RIC
     

    Anastasius, 491-518 AD

    Follis
    Constantinopolis
     

    Justinus I, 518-527
    Solidus

    Miliarense, Thessalonica
     
     

    Justinus I and Justinianus, 527

     

    Justinianus, 527-565, who managed to recover Italy and large parts of the Western Mediterranean from the Germanic invaders, but lost most of it already during his lifetime....

    Follis, early type, and later type with frontal bust, left from Rome, then from Constantinopolis, Antiochia, last from Carthage

    Siliqua, from Carthage, 1/8th Siliqua from Ravenna

    20 Nummi (half Follis),  V Nummi Sicilia, and Carthage, 10 Nummi (I) from Rome

     

    Justinus II (565-578)
    Solidus

    Quartersiliqua, Ravenna
     
     

    Tiberius II Constantinus (578-583)
    Solidus
    30 Nummi = 3/4 Follis
     

    Mauricius Tiberius (582-602)

     

    Phocas (602-610)
    Solidus
    XXXX Follis
     

    Heraclius (610-641) with his 2 sons, 638-9, during his reign the Arabic invasion swept to the doorstep of Constantinopolis, the holy land remaining lost for centuries.

     
     

    Constans II with his 3 sons, 654-659

     

    Justinianus II with the first image of Christ on byzantine coins, later to become a standard image, first reign 685-695, second 705-711


     

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