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Michaelaton logo #10101) Coin of the Byzantine Empire
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Michaelaton

Michaelaton logo #21000 In a more technical sense, it refers to the gold histamena issued by Emperor Michael IV the Paphlagonian (r. 1034–1041) and, in sources of the late 11th and the 12th centuries, for those of Emperor Michael VII Doukas (r. 1071–1078), whose gold coinage was the last to retain a reasonably high amount of gold (16 carats) before the massive debase...
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