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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 4947087, member: 44316&quot;]Here is a Byzantine coin of Leo IV, The Khazar, 775-780.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1189081[/ATTACH] </p><p>24-23 mm. 4.78 grams.</p><p>Leo IV and Constantine VI (on the right) facing on a double throne</p><p>Leo III and Constantine V (on the right) each in loros, half length, above large M with X [obscured by corrosion] to left and N to right. </p><p>Struck 776-780.</p><p>Sear 1587. Grierson 695.</p><p>Given this type has no legend, I wondered how the rulers were identified. Then I saw there is a solidus (Sear 1584) with legends identifying the rulers, with exactly the same obverse design, including the unusual throne, and same reverse design, except for the rulers only and not the part below the line.</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine VI was his son and heir. Leo III was his grandfather and Constantine V his father. So, four generations of rulers are on one coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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