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[RFC DoC] A story of Byzantium

:clap: very good story, looking forward to the next one.
 
Nice work!

@The Holy Mountain: Why does that always turn out to be in such useless spots? :confused:
 
A year later, Byzantium captured Tebriz, which was renamed Alexandropolis, in the name of the reigning emperor.

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Alexandros.


Where do you find names and coins for your past 1453 Emperors :D? Alexandros seems to resemble Manuel Comnemos (1143-1180) . How about others?
 
From an artistic point of view, I don't like the way Byzantine coinage developed after year 700 (though some of the Macedonian dynasty coinage isn't that bad, and some Komnenoi coins do have certain elegance), and all the coins I inserted come from the 330-700 periods, or photoshopped. I was following the aesthetic, not historic appeal. I also wasn't following the emperors' timeline after Herakleios - a different history would see different people on the throne.

The Photoshopped ones are:

"Ioannes crowned by Christ" - a detail of Byzantine ivory plaque showing Christ and Constantine VIII Porphyrogenitos (r. 913-959), put though filter.

"Petros" and "Andronikos" - are actually details of late Roman/Early Byzantine marble consular dyptichs, filtered.
 
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