The silver used to make the older coins dating back between A.D. 660 and 750 was mined in the eastern Mediterranean region somewhere within the Byzantine Empire, which was an unexpected discovery.

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 ...

Despite decades of Islamic rule, they were still after all using the coins of their former rulers - the Christian Byzantine emperors - and those coins were full of Christian symbolism. It was ...

George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

Michael III, the "Alcoholic" Byzantine Emperor, ruled surprisingly well despite his controversial behavior and personal ...

The period from the late fourth to the sixth century C.E. saw the collapse of the Roman empire in the West, and the emergence of the Eastern or “Byzantine” empire ... As a collector of coins from this ...