Author : James Douglas Breckenridge
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Numismatic Iconography of Justinian II (685-695, 705-711 A.D.) by : James Douglas Breckenridge
Download or read book The Numismatic Iconography of Justinian II (685-695, 705-711 A.D.) written by James Douglas Breckenridge and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justinian II was the first Byzantine emperor to place the image of Christ on his regular official coinage. When he took this step, furthermore, he used not one but two quite different representations of the physical appearance of Christ. The precedent thus created was ignored by his successors, however, and the Christ-image disappeared again from the Byzantine coinage for a century and a half, while the Eastern Empire was torn by the Iconoclastic Controversy; then, almost immediately upon the Restoration of the Images in the middle of the ninth century, one of Justinian II's two coin types of Christ was copied almost line for line by the die-cutters of Michael III, and thereafter became the prototype of one of the Christ representations which became normal on imperial Byzantine coins from the ninth century on. -- Introduction.