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(a solidus of Justinian II)
ER Eastern Roman Empire Andronicus II and Michael IX CE 1295-1320. AR Basilikon, 22mm, 2.1g, 6h; Mint of Constantinople. Obv.: IC XC KVREI BOHΘH, Jesus Christ enthroned, right hand raised in benediction,large dot either side. Rev: ΑVΤΩΚΡΑΤΟ - PΕC PWΜΑION; Andronicus standing left and Michael standing right; holding between them a labarum. Comments: Andronikos was acclaimed co-emperor in 1261, after his father Michael VIII recovered Constantinople from the Latin Empire, but he wasn't crowned until 1272. Sole emperor from 1282, Andronikos II immediately repudiated his father's unpopular Church union with the Papacy, which he had been forced to support while his father was still alive, but he was unable to resolve the related schism within the Orthodox clergy until 1310. [wiki] These coins were all flatly struck Reference: DOC V part 1.Class VIII.(f) 528-534 From the H8Modern Collection Ex: @John Anthony (Cited from: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lets-see-your-portraits-of-jesus.376764/)
<<< Ervig AV Tremissis 680-87 is one of the first renderings of Jesus
On July 28, 450, Emperor Theodosius II fell from his horse and died without a successor. His powerful sister Pulcheria, who had taken a lifelong vow of chastity, quickly arranged a political marriage with Marcian, a military commander, to ensure an orderly succession to the throne. It was customary to issue special ceremonial coins for imperial weddings, bearing the reverse Latin inscription FELICITER NUBTIIS (“Happily Married”). Distributed as party favors at the wedding banquet, they were often mounted in jewelry and treasured as keepsakes for generations. One damaged example of the gold marriage solidus for Marcian and Pulcheria survives, in a museum in Glasgow, Scotland. Neither the bride nor the groom had a living father to preside over the ceremony, so the palace official who commissioned the design of the coin had the engraver place the standing figure of Christ between Marcian and Pulcheria.
