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Did Roman Coins Keep Circulating after the Fall of the Empire?

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Comment from : @ClassicalNumismatics

Interesting presentation! brIn the "Dark Ages" and Middle Ages, Roman and Byzantine coins of silver and gold would certainly have been traded as a form of "money", sometimes only for their value by weight I'm thinking some Roman coins (like the Denarius) might just have been commonly accepted at a fixed value - especially in times of scarcity of contemporary coinage Even today - the absolute minimum value of a "slick" featureless Roman coin might be determined by its value as precious metal
Comment from : @mojavegold-

En España estivieron circulando monedas romanas hasta siglos despues de la caida del imperio debido a la dificultad que tuvieron los reyes locales de fabricarlas, debido a que los romanos habian cerrado todas las cecas españolas durante el bajo imperio y Hispania se nutria de todas las cecas del imperio para abastecerse Al no haber cecas que tomar por los primeros invasores, no pudieron fabricar sus propias monedas hasta siglos despuésbrAsi que la moneda local era la moneda romana
Comment from : @manuelcorral4625

The Roman Empire never fell it just became the Catholic Church, The United States, England, Israel, etc Thr United States capital, Washington, DC, was once called "Rome on the Potomac"
Comment from : @johnmendoza5907

It has to be mentioned that Charlemagne actually reintroduced the denarius with the whole portrait and all Shame though that his reforms didn't last long This was just one of many things he enacted as Roman emperor proclaimed by the pope
Comment from : @compatriot852

I got a Trajan Decius double denari in change as a Nickel about 20 years ago😳 It's very rough, almost smooth but I still have it
Comment from : @billpotter7162

damn illewgal alien immigrants !!!just like we have today with illegals aliens from south america invading
Comment from : @takusungjung3894

An excellent video that satisfies a question I had in another video
Comment from : @davidsault9698

make a video on ROMAN EGYPTIAN COINS, ALEXANDRIA Please
Comment from : @uugreg

That was a great video Thank you for bringing so much fascinating history in this short presentation
Comment from : @anthonyseta4566

I would have thought Greschem’s Law would have taken the earlier coins out of circulation
Comment from : @geoffrobinson

Highly interesting :)
Comment from : @isabelcrb

YesbrThe value was the metal
Comment from : @tomhenry897

Considering Byzantine was still around pretty sure it was
Comment from : @NihilistSolitude

To think what would be if the western empire never fell
Comment from : @sulev111

Amazing how the Roman coins were of much higher quality of art than coins produced 1000 years later
Comment from : @TexasTimeLord

Very interesting video Thank you
Comment from : @rafaelramos1486

Better question: will US currency?
Comment from : @dryciderz

Proud to be Barbarian!
Comment from : @hkkhgffh3613

Thank you for creating this video It actually answered so well to my question i had for the past 3 months I study archaeology at university and really really want to connect my future work with coins from Roman Empire
Comment from : @karolina1332

Gold is gold
Comment from : @nicbahtin4774

I thought youre talking about the fall of the Roman Empire in 1453
Comment from : @theunknownpersonism

very cool!
Comment from : @nathanlurie2602

Do you know any good place to read up on late lombardian coins? like past 900 ad I cant really find much info about it
Comment from : @DontUseThusAnymore

Someday I’ll look into the few I have and maybe they’ll jumpstart a whole new side of coin collecting for me
Comment from : @Juan_Doooh

I'm so glad I found your channel❤ love your work
Comment from : @TheSMC1988

Of course they did It is not like people would have thrown their money away just because the empire stopped
Comment from : @Tugela60

Amazing Roman coins circulating in the middle ages
Comment from : @jimkennedy7050

Bravo!
Comment from : @davidgeister

Thanks Leo that was brilliant research from you👍
Comment from : @GordonGrant-o1h

If the coin is made of solid silver I could see a shopkeeper or merchant accepting it for its precious metal value and giving a farmer a few drinks at the tavern for example
Comment from : @1973Washu

Excellent video! Judging from the comments and your responses, it seems there's content for a second episode!
Comment from : @orestesrafaelbetancourt4237

Unpopular Opinion: Rome had the best coins in the game
Comment from : @YT_Eros

Recently watched a video from a U Toronto professor specializing in coins used in the British North American colonies One of the sources he quoted, which was one of Canadas earliest numismatist focusing on the plethora of coins circulating around the colony He stated that roman and even at least one Ancient Greek coin circulated in the colonies They were extremely rare but did circulate It is crazy to think about the longevity of these coins and how they managed to cross a whole ocean and be used a millennia and a half or more after their mintage
Comment from : @TaterTT1023

Loved those Probus-like medieval coins!
Comment from : @caracallaavg

Absolutely fascinating Thank you for posting
Comment from : @R08Tam

For many decades and even centuries, these Imperial coins were the only good quality available for use
Comment from : @peterasp1968

Man I love this Channel This is good stuff
Comment from : @christopherevans2445

Great video, we need more on it
Comment from : @petkodimitrov2795

If the value of money is determined by its material, a Roman coin pays as good as any other coin
Comment from : @doppelwaffen

Loved this episode Extremely informative Prior to this, I'd assumed the next era just melted most of them
Comment from : @johnlee4897

11:20, good point, I never thought about that of course those Renaissance collections we hear about today were those of the nobilty and the very rich, but some middle class scholar may have also collected, mostly clerics in fact, I recall a "hoard" of Roman coins found in Mexico in aracheological context it is supposed to have been the collection of some 17th century Spanish numismatist-friar who eventually hid it in face of some danger I utterly understand him, he could not afford to come over here to the Americas without his collection, I would have done the same thing!
Comment from : @Numischannel

13:50 that's got to be a medieval instance of "not my job, boss" 💀
Comment from : @Je_QzcY3mN0

Emperor of the Romans, not king
Comment from : @w0lfgm

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Comment from : @janiskar7892

Always something which I never knew😊!
Comment from : @glasgowjohn6372

Complimenti belle Monetine Video spettacolare 🎉
Comment from : @RoccoMonete

Nice info
Comment from : @theconqueringram5295

I fyou ever do a top ten of all your videos this would be near or at number 1 as it is SOOO fascinating The only detail you didn't mention is that the bronze coins sold for scrap in rural areas of parts of Europe in the early 19th century were also used I believe until the 19th century fir ballast for seafaring ships!
Comment from : @chrissahar2014

Amazing video I have always asked myself this question!
Comment from : @-ZTUN-

Miserably sad to think of how many Roman coins were melted down over the centuries and are now just plain elemental components of gold bars in a Swiss vault being held for some billionaire or other
Comment from : @DieLuftwaffel

Seeing 5th century Vandals using a coin of Vespasian makes me wonder if anyone ever looked at it and decided to just keep it as some sort of lucky coin I wonder how they would feel if they saw us collecting their currency, or if they did the same during their days to some extent
Comment from : @Chaika1974

If memory serves me right, some Roman Siliqua were shaved down for use as early Anglo-Saxon coins prior to King Alfred unifying the kingdoms
Comment from : @robertkennedy2027

Thank you so much for answering my question Loved this video ❤
Comment from : @therealCelticViking

Here -> 8:21, It's amazing how much better, more realistic, and more detailed ancient Roman coins look than English coins from the 900s AD brThe details on the hair and beard especially Roman coins can rival the 20th-century coins in terms of detail It's remarkable Coins from the 900s AD look crude and primitive brThe face of the emperor looks very realistic and detailed The king in the upper row looks like some ghoulish monster The decline was real Europe really went into the dark ages for 100s of years Even the technology of making coins went in more crude, primitive designs due to a lack of technology
Comment from : @oldi184

I like how when talking about Charles IV the image from Kingdom Come Deliverance is shown xd
Comment from : @tatrankaska2305

The thumbnail is a 10/10 from me 😂
Comment from : @Matisto1

Thank you for this delightful and informative distraction from the present brMuch appreciated ❤
Comment from : @rumpstatefiasco

Great video! Channel has been a bit of an obsession of mine lately :DbrbrIf you have the time or desire, would you mind explaining (in video or text form) when, why and how the coins switched the emperor's face from portrait to full front facing? Thanks!
Comment from : @DukeLongfellow

Melted down by goldsmiths?? I had no idea this was a horror video!
Comment from : @Kyrgizion

What a delightful video! I’m glad YouTube recommended it to me! 🪙🪙🪙
Comment from : @lisascenic

If you look at early American coinage, you see liberty presented as a personified deity, initially with the same cap that was the badge of liberty for manumitted slaves in Ancient Rome And on the reverses, the eagle of Zeus from Ptolemy’s time
Comment from : @stephenparker4083

Wow this video was fascinating i have been thinking about this question for a while thanks for answering it
Comment from : @Bluelobster365

Great episode I've often wondered when a Roman coin in my collection was last used to make a purchase Who made the purchase & what did they buy??? I agree with you the connection we get collecting ancient coins with people of the past is a bonus to one's collection
Comment from : @SpectreEelman

One could argue that, spiritually, Rome never really fell If anything, its influence only expanded We still write and speak using Latin based languages, buildings are still being built around the world that take styles from Greek and Roman architecture, art is still being made in the style of Greek and Roman art, we still use Roman numerals, the Catholic Church, a Roman era institution, is still around and thriving Not to mention the coins we have today, particularly in the US, UK, Canada, etc still use a lot of the same design choices as Roman coins Hell, we even see Latin itself still being used in a number of fields and in coinage and such Many Roman symbols, such as the fasces and Lady Liberty, is still used as symbols of countries today The US (and other countries) even takes a lot of ideas for governance from the Romans themselves I could go on and on Regardless, the influence of the Roman Empire can still be very much seen in our day to day lives despite it having been about 1500 years since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and about 600 years since the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire
Comment from : @stevekovoc3939