Greetings all,

In the News - an interesting article about silver coinage in some of the Byzantine eras:

https://coinweek.com/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-paradox-byzantine-silver/

One would think there would always be more silver coins than gold... but that's true only if you have silver mines. From the reign of Gallenius 253-260 AD and beyond, hostile tribes controlled many of the areas were silver was mined. The result was that some Emperors had almost no silver to work with, so minted coinage in bronze or gold for the most part. An interesting side note in Byzantine era economics, with some rare example coins!

-Marcus Cassius Julianus