byzantine

Hello everyone, I live in Paris and on the weekend i stumbled upon a tiny little antique shop filled to over flowing with every kind of item you could imagine. As i was leaving i saw a old cross in the window, the seller said it was Carolingian, 8th century around the time of Charlemagne. He...

Searching for euros on the beach

I found this lovely 11th century Byzantine lead seal with my older Whites 5900 di/Pro machine in the area of Missis, Turkey. These are not the seals used to mark wax, but rather, these are seals that were used to secure official government (church) documents and packages. During the...