By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....
AT THE BEGINNING of the 14th century (c. 1300 CE), Anatolia (modern Türkiye) was a patchwork of “beyliks”, small,...
By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....
ALONGSIDE THE GREAT Seleucid and Ptolemaic empires that emerged from the breakup of Alexander the Great’s empire following his...
By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and...
Overview
In 1092 CE, the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus enacted sweeping coinage reforms. He stopped production of previous denominations and introduced five new ones:...
By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....
AT THE BEGINNING of recorded history, the Iberian Peninsula was inhabited by a variety of peoples.
Iberians, who spoke a...
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....
THROUGH A LONG chain of pious frauds and medieval myth-making, the February 14 feast day of St....
CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz ......
IN 2007, CANADA captured a world record by producing five examples of a 100-kilogram gold piece (220.5...