The archaeological evidence attests the existence of Byzantine coins in the territory of the Rus as early as the 9th century. However they started to appear regularly from the last quarter of the 10th century. The found coins are gold,…
NUMISMATICS
Silver Jewish shekel, First Revolt against Rome, AD 70
In the year AD 66, while Nero was still reigning, a revolt broke up in Judaea instigated by the act of the procurator Gessius Florus to appropriate seventeen talents from Solomon’s Temple. Added discontent towards Roman administration for insulting attitude…
Siege coin of Mantova, 1799
April 1796. Napoleon Bonaparte, then a rather unknown French general, invades North Italy in charge of an army of scruffy and tattered soldiers. After a month Milan was occupied and in less than two Mantova (Mantua) was laid under siege….