High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Byzantine mints were coin-manufacturing facilities established and operated by the East Roman or Byzantine Empire (330–1453) throughout its history. Aside from the main metropolitan mints in the capital, Constantinople, and other major cities, a varying number of provincial mints were also established in provincial urban centres, especially during the 6th century. Most provincial mints except for Syracuse were closed or lost by the mid-7th century. After the loss of Syracuse in 878, Constantinople became the sole mint for gold and silver coinage until the late 11th century, when major provincial mints begin to re-appear. Many mints, both imperial and, as the Byzantine world fragmented, belonging to autonomous local rulers, were operated in the 12th–14th centuries. Constantinople and Trebizond, the seat of the independent Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461), survived until their conquest by the Ottoman Turks in the mid-15th century. Данное...

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