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Hi all, I'm new to this forum and am very interested in discussing Ancient, mainly Byzantine, coins. I send my most heartfelt greetings to all of the members in this forum. *** Edited by Staff - Please Review the rules that you agreed to when you registered. ***Kind regards, Trabzon7 Edited by Trabzon7
11/20/2013 06:11 am
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You are not allowed to buy coins from any members here until you have 250 post and have been a member for 90 days.
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Hi,
Thank you for informing me of this rule, I am new and did not know.
Thanks again.
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Pillar of the Community
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oh man, Trebizond coins..i was hoping to see posted here...got kind of excited.
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 ..Trabzon7
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Just to avoid the disappointment chrsmat and others may feel at clicking on this thread and not actually seeing any Trapezuntine coins (now there's an adjective I've never used before), here is the favourite coin of Trebizond from my collection. Not that the competition was fierce, since I only have two:   Silver asper of Grand Comnenus John II. Obverse inscription (If you can find it): IW O KMNOS (John the Comnenus). Reverse inscription O AGIO EVGENIO (The Saint Eugenius). Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
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YEAH! thanks sap...those are not easy to find! that's looks like a pretty dang nice one.
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Thanks for the warm welcome Eng5858, I am really looking forward to being a part of this forum.
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I use that adjective a lot lol, the Trapezuntine Empire. That's a very nice coin of John II, Sap.
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Couple of nice ones selling on ebay at the mo too.....(not mine!) |
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sorry, forgot..... |
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Thanks for the kind welcome ThisIsFun and Yeoldecoins.
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Just changed the thread's title so as not to mislead anyone else about the Trebizond coins lol, changed it to the more appropriate 'Greetings' so I can introduce myself to the Coin Community.
Edited by Trabzon7
11/20/2013 06:11 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Just read up on the empire...interesting. Must keep an eye out for David (the last roman emperor sort of maybe...didnt some other empires claim to be 'roman'?). |
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I don't believe that David minted any coins during his reign (at least for now none are known). I believed he reigned for something like three years or so before Trebizond fell to the Ottomans. As far as I know (and I believe Sear and Retowski go thus far), coins were minted up to the reign of the second last emperor, John IV.
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Posted 11/19/2013 9:30 pm
