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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 4799145, member: 83956&quot;]I hope the Byzantine specialists will pardon this naïve question, but I was reading a bit about Byzantine coinage and specifically the iconoclast Leo III (685 – 741), who is said to have removed most religious imagery from Byzantine coinage, with the exception of the cross.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I think of Byzantine religious coinage, I think of those anonymous folles featuring Christ. But these are much later than Leo III. Leo III’s bronze reverses seem to show denominational symbols, such as the large M for the 40-nummi follis. But this reverse type certainly predates Leo III.</p><p><br /></p><p>So in short, what changes with Leo III? What kinds of pre-Leo III imagery do we not see after him? Was the pre-Leo III religious imagery found more on gold coinage than the bronze? Because I don’t see much changing in the bronze coinage...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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