Culture: Heads and Tales ; an Exhibition Just Opened in Birmingham Explores the Golden Age of Byzantium Through Its Internationally Accepted Coinage, Writes Terry Grimley

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As trade spread across the world in the Middle Ages money, naturally enough, accompanied it.

It took the form of miniature works of art, bearing images which reflected the cultural and religious allegiances of the trading nations, and the complicated and sometimes surprising exchanges between them.

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Culture: Heads and Tales ; an Exhibition Just Opened in Birmingham Explores the Golden Age of Byzantium Through Its Internationally Accepted Coinage, Writes Terry Grimley

The exhibition Encounters, just opened at the Barber Institute, is devoted to tracing some of these complexities, exploring the dominance of the Byzantine Empire from the late fifth century onwards. Because coins are a miniature medium, an exhibition spanning ...

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