Basiliscus
(475-476 AD, solidus)
The
Byzantine Millenium:
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, solidus)
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
Follis
Constantinopolis
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
Quartersiliqua, Ravenna
Tiberius II
Constantinus (578-583)
Solidus
30 Nummi = 3/4 Follis
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
Solidus
Solidus
