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Pillar of the Community
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picked up 3 budget byzantines....   leo v 813-820 ad o:leo r:constantine v (with cross on crown) sear 1636 here's a couple of phocases(phoci), didn't have any of the ruler and wanted some with the roman numerals instead of the greek...so these fit the bill.   left: follis 606-607 (year 5) constantinople mint sear 640 right: half follis 602-604 (year 1 or 2...not sure) nicromedia sear 663 |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice pick up! The word "budget" always sounds good.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Budget triple play I feel that!
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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The reverse of the follis is cool. one day ill buy a byzantine worth more than the copper in it. People need to stop posting so many cool coins - ill go broke!
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Nice coins, Phocas coins have always interested me, I consider him the Caligula of the Byzantine period.
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Pillar of the Community
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Didn't Heraculis strangle Phocas himself with his bare hands?
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Pillar of the Community
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thanks all! I've read a couple of accounts, with some variontin on how he did it, but everyone seems to agree that he did him in after phocas smarted off to him.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Seems like Emperors should have gotten hazardous duty pay back then. They never knew from which direction the axe would fall.
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Pillar of the Community
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the byzatnines also seemed very fond of their poking rivals eyes out if they didn't kill them, in a byzantine history book I read recently I lost count of how many times someone was blinded to dampen any aspirations that they may have to rule. anyone know if this was common for others culters? check this out on wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politi...tine_culture |
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Didn't Heraculis strangle Phocas himself with his bare hands?~Ancientnoob From my recollection of Norwich's "Byzantium: The Early Centuries", Phocas was beheaded. Phocas had Maurice (who he rebelled against and overthrew) forced to watch his children being executed before he himself was beheaded. |
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hey masis, the book I was talking abou was norwich's short version of byzantine history (single volume).
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The also liked to slit there tongues.
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Posted 08/02/2013 11:47 am
