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Leo III and Constantine V Gold Solidus
Leo III and Constantine V face one another across the two sides of the solidus, replacing sacred figural imagery with a direct statement of dynasty.
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Isaurian Empire
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Constantine V Gold Solidus
Constantine V places his deceased father Leo III opposite his own portrait, using gold to turn ancestry into continuing political authority.
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Constantine V and Leo IV Gold Solidus
Constantine V and Leo IV appear together while Leo III occupies the reverse, arranging three generations of the Isaurian dynasty in gold.
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Leo IV and Constantine VI Gold Solidus
Leo IV and the young Constantine VI face two deceased ancestors, turning the solidus into a four-generation theatre of legitimacy.
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Constantine VI Gold Solidus
Constantine VI appears beside his father on one face and his grandfather and great-grandfather on the other, inheriting a dynasty whose internal tensions would shape his…
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Constantine VI and Irene Gold Solidus
Irene occupies one face and Constantine VI the other, a stark two-person image from one of Byzantium’s most charged struggles between regent, mother and emperor.
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