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Now we are ready to move backwards to the decade of the 700s. Anyone have a coin to post? I'm all done contributing for a few decades. I remembered to fix the title this time.  |
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Ok super! Just a reminder to any new folks that under the rules originally set up for this thread, we are looking for coins from the decade of 700-709 AD (as opposed to the century of 700-799 AD). Who has something to post?
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I changed the title to remove the ambiguity.  |
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I'm waiting in the wings with 695- so don't be shy ^^
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Bumping this thread. We are looking for a coin made in the decade between 700 and 709 AD. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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Great point @davidUK! In the last six months, we have moved this thread from the decade of the 950s back to where we are now: the decade of the 700s. That is a quarter of a millennium through some pretty sparse territory (numismatically anyway). I feel like we are now getting pretty close to the Byzantine era which could potentially move us along with some rapidity.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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bump...looking for coins minted in the decade between 700 and 709 AD. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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This is almost as tough as the 1491 for the other threads. |
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Did some quick research, and it's understandable why this is a tough decade; serious unrest in both the Byzantine and Muslim worlds, and Europe was in the dark ages still.
Byzantine contenders are Tiberius III and Justin II's second reign.
Muslim contenders are very rare issues of al-Malik, as he was both in the middle of a coinage reform, and at war with the Byzantines who were not happy about losing their biggest consumer of Byzantine gold. Arab-Byzantine and Arab-Sassanian coins were still being made, but I don't think they can be accurately dated.
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Good work, Finn.  Seems like there is a small pool of opportunity. I do hope we will eventually satisfy and then move past this decade. |
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@finn, thanks for looking deeper into this. In the Byzantine Empire, the time of 695 to 717 AD evidently was known as the "twenty years anarchy". For Byzantine coins, I can't find anything definitively of this decade. The closest are the gold solidi of Tiberius III, but those can only be dated to 698 to 705 AD. I'll look elsewhere next...
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The coin I was looking to post next from the 690's is a continental type of Anglo Saxon Sceat, looking at Spinks I see that coins were made with in the period of 700-710 but not necessarily attributable to it. Aldfrith 685-705, Aethelred of Mercia 674-704 both produced coins but not being dated its going to be hard to pin anything down to the period we're after.
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its going to be hard to pin anything down to the period we're after. I agree. I spent some time last night looking through Spinks, Roberts, and Hartill and have pretty much eliminated Great Britain, France, and China. None of these places seem to have coins attributable to just this one decade. Somewhere in Germany? Italy?  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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