What type of currency did the Byzantine Empire use?

Byzantine currency, money used in the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the West, consisted of mainly two types of coins: gold solidi and hyperpyra and a variety of clearly valued bronze coins. By the 15th century, the currency was issued only in debased silver stavrata and minor copper coins with no gold issue.

How much do Byzantine coins cost?

The five pleasant Byzantine coins offered in this group pictured above range in date from the 6th through the 12th Centuries A.D. Four are copper and one is billon. The lot realized a touch more than $190, or about $38 per coin. The above group of nine scyphates includes issues produced from the 12th through the 14th Centuries A.D.

Are Byzantine coins ancient coins?

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.