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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