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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Steven Michael Gardner, post: 6570483, member: 97508&quot;]This has been an interesting and informative topic for me as I am not well versed</p><p>in byzantine cons to begin with, I mentioned Propaganda value as to past rulers</p><p>busts on coins, however Christ throughout history is one of the major religious</p><p>propaganda symbols ever produced, I don&#039;t know how many versions of Christ there were, but I do think individual rulers at the time would either be more receptive</p><p>to having Christ circulating on coinage and some not so much, thus it is interesting to me why the re-striking of such similar Christ images...?</p><p>Thank you for the points about denominations &amp; inflation components as I&#039;m sure</p><p>this plays a prominent role in why this re-strike was done on this coin...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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