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Constantine VII and Romanus II Gold Solidus
Christ precedes Constantine VII and Romanus II, presenting scholarship, ceremony and succession as government exercised beneath sacred authority.
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Romanus II Gold Solidus
Christ faces Constantine VII and Romanus II beneath an altered reverse inscription, a politically charged solidus from Romanus II’s short independent reign.
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John I Gold Tetarteron Nomisma
Christ confronts the viewer while John I is crowned by the Virgin and the hand of God, turning a contested accession into a ceremony of divine…
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Basil II and Constantine VIII Gold Tetarteron Nomisma
Christ’s commanding portrait and the paired emperors Basil II and Constantine VIII express the sacred and dynastic foundations of Macedonian power.
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Constantine VIII Gold Histamenon Nomisma
Constantine VIII stands alone opposite Christ after decades as junior emperor, his portrait finally presenting the colleague as sole sovereign.
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Romanus III Gold Histamenon Nomisma
Christ stands in majesty while the Virgin crowns Romanus III, staging imperial rule as a sacred coronation rather than a merely political succession.
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