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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 5302245, member: 84744&quot;]That&#039;s a beauty, AJ!&nbsp; It&#039;s interesting that his second reign featured such a contrasting depiction (not my coin):</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/33/106/90318.m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My favourite depiction of Christ in my own collection:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1223517[/ATTACH]</p><p>Anonymous follis class A3, issued c. 1023-1028 (Basil II &amp; Constantine VIII)</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, I don&#039;t see how you can describe Byzantine coin art as suffering from a &quot;stylistic degradation&quot; when they were capable of producing works of great beauty like this one:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1223524[/ATTACH]</p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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