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It had been way better earlier, both on Roman and Greek coinage. Some of the Greek coins would put anything modern to shame. For some reason the quality of the
by HarHarVeryFunny 4y ago
It had been way better earlier, both on Roman and Greek coinage. Some of the Greek coins would put anything modern to shame. For some reason the quality of the coinage at the end of the roman empire (what we'd call the byzantine empire, even though they'd have just called themselves romans) took a major turn for the worse in terms of artistic quality.
- rawgabbit 4y agoThe declining quality probably correlated with the military setbacks the Byzantines were dealt by the Arabs and later by the Turks. Heraclius finally defeated the Sassanid Persians in 622 but lost much of the Holy Land to the Arabs by 640. [1,2] The crushing defeat of the Byzantines at Manzikert in 1071 [3] led to a series of events that resulted in the Crusades. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclius#Byzantine_counter-offensive_and_resurgence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclius#Byzantine_counter-of... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Yarmuk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Yarmuk [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manzikert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manzikert