Byzantine Coins
Coinage and Medieval Communication
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The Byzantine World |
Byzantine coins circulated across and well beyond the borders of the Byzantine world. Merchants, pilgrims, soldiers, ambassadors and artists carried the valuable coins as far afield as Britain, Scandinavia and China. The wide circulation of coinage reveals Byzantium as an international meeting place for commodities, people, and ideas, and provides a unique window into its highly sophisticated and monetised economy.
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