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Anastasius I Gold Solidus
Anastasius inherited the late Roman solidus and made it the stable gold voice of a newly confident eastern empire. Victory and the long cross unite classical…
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Early Byzantine Empire
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Justin I Gold Solidus
Justin I’s solidus preserves the last strength of the late Roman portrait tradition: an armoured emperor answered by Victory and the patriarchal cross.
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Justin I Gold Solidus
A facing military portrait and an angel with the long cross place Justin I between Roman command and the emerging sacred court of Byzantium.
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Justin II Gold Solidus
Justin II faces the viewer as emperor while Constantinopolis personifies the capital whose authority his gold travelled far beyond the city walls.
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Tiberius II Constantine Gold Solidus
Tiberius II’s solidus sets a frontal emperor against the cross potent, reducing imperial ideology to two enduring signs: ruler and faith.
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Maurice Tiberius Gold Solidus
Maurice Tiberius appears as a military ruler while an angel carries the patriarchal cross, an image of victory poised before the empire’s seventh-century crisis.
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Justinian II Gold Solidus, Second Reign
Restored after exile and mutilation, Justinian II places Christ the King opposite his own uncompromising portrait, turning a turbulent return into sacred authority.
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