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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2844451, member: 19463&quot;]The first coin with a portrait of Jesus was well into the Byzantine period six hundred years after the time of John.&nbsp; The first nation ruled by a Christian king was Aksum in Africa who only predated the conversion of Constantine by a few years.&nbsp; Neither of them put Christ on coins.&nbsp; The matter of what Christ had looked like and whether it was acceptable to represent him in human form was very much in dispute then.</p><p>See:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=120506" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=120506" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=120506</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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