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Φωτογραφία ΧΑΡΙΛΑΟΣ ΔΟΛΓΥΡΑΣ
Απάντηση: Βυζαντινή εποποιία και οικονομία
από ΧΑΡΙΛΑΟΣ ΔΟΛΓΥΡΑΣ - Τετάρτη, 4 Φεβρουάριος 2015, 8:36 πμ
 

No wonder Basil II left, upon his death, a treasury so full that it impressed not only Michael Psellos but also the Muslims: a late eleventh-century Arab source informs us that “When Basil, son of Romanos, the emperor of Byzantium, died . . . he left ten thousand qintars of gold coins (1,000,000 pounds or 72,000,000 gold coins) and jewels worth 54 million dinars.” Michael Psellos gives a figure of 200,000 talants, or litrai of gold in cash, that is, 14.4 million gold coins.