Excellent examples of Byzantine coins are easily affordable

By Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) ……



As we discovered in the previous two columns, the fields of ancient Greek and Roman coins provide the budget-minded collector with opportunities perhaps unequaled in any other area of numismatics.

This month we’ll continue the discovery with Byzantine coins, which in truth are not ‘ancients’ at all, but are Dark Age and Medieval coins. However, the collecting tradition has attached them to ancient coinage because the Byzantine Empire was the seamless continuation of the fallen Roman Empire.

As in the previous two columns, we’ll focus on coins available for $100 USD or less, and we’ll start with group lots sold in recent online auctions. Below are four examples.