Byzantine

For seven centuries the gold solidus of Constantinople was the most trusted coin of the Mediterranean world, its weight and purity held almost unchanged from Constantine to the eleventh century. Byzantine coins show the imperial court in a distinctive style: facing emperors holding the cross and globe, co-emperors side by side, and the cross potent on steps that became the empire’s emblem.

Our Byzantine coins run from Justinian I and the Heraclian dynasty through Leontius and Justinian II to the later concave aspron trachy and hyperpyron of the Komnenian and Palaiologan emperors. Many are NGC certified, and every coin is guaranteed authentic.

New to Byzantine gold? Read A Buyer’s Guide to Byzantine Gold Solidi.