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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 4801279, member: 83956&quot;]Thanks for these posts, folks. [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER]&#039;s comments confirm my sense that there really wasn&#039;t a widespread tradition of religious portraiture on Byzantine coinage prior to Leo III, aside from a few gold issues. To claim that Leo III&#039;s iconoclasm significantly changed Byzantine coinage seems to be overstatement (the claim from an art historian that prompted my query). More plausible is a suggestion that once the pro-icon iconodules triumphed in the late 9th century, one sees an explosion of religious portraiture, including the anonymous folles bearing Christ&#039;s image.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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