At the same time, western Roman cities began to crumble while Constantinople remained stable. As the Eastern Roman Empire emerged after the fall of the West, Byzantine coins were mainly comprised of ...
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Unravelling the mystery of England's Dark Age coins: Analysis reveals how 'pennies' were made using silver from France - despite a huge Anglo-Franco rivalryThe experts also found that even older English coins used silver from the eastern Mediterranean, in the Byzantine Empire ... was based at Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul).
Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.
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