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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2260193, member: 19463&quot;]Someone may want to do full research on this one but I doubt many of us can appreciate just how big a deal putting Christ on the coins was in that day. In addition to upsetting the Iconoclast Christians it made the coinage untouchable by Muslims who had previously even struck coins copying Byzantine originals.&nbsp; Leo III forbade images of Christ which upset the regular Catholic Byzantines who loved their icons.&nbsp; This is the kind of dispute that people die for on both sides.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Justinian II had two reigns.&nbsp; At his first deposition, his nose and tongue were slit supposedly rendering him unacceptable for rule.&nbsp; He came back and had a reign of terror killing everyone who supported those who replaced him.&nbsp; The second time he we deposed, he was executed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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