Just posted a .stl file for a Byzantine Coin at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5902779. The Roman empire had been unified in 27 BCE and the western empire fell in the 400s CE. By then, the Byzantine empire had been established by Diocletian in 285 CE. Constantine I moved the capital to Byzantium, which would then be called Constantinople. The Thracians had settled the area around 1,500 to 1,700 years before – possibly by Byzas, supposedly a son of Poseidon and grandson of Io. Having been settled by the Greeks and then occupied by the Greeks. The colony began as a trading site and then traded hands between city states and the Persian Empire…
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3D-printable Francish Coin From Charlemagne (and why)
Just posted another coin, this time a post Roman empire coin from the next to claim the title: Charlemagne: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5902572 After the fall of the Western Roman empire, Rome retreated from lands as her generals were defeated. The Merovingian dynasty rose in the 5th century with the defeat of Syagrius, the last Roman general of Gaul and lasted until a family of advisors slowly took control of running the country, transitioning to the Carolingian Empire, of which Charlemagne, the Holy Roman Emperor, as he was crowned, was the most famous. He conquered and grew the empire. Medieval Christians still held the last vestiges of the Roman empire, the Eastern Byzantine…