Lets see your portraits of Jesus

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  1. NewStyleKing

    NewStyleKing Beware of Greeks bearing wreaths

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    Athens New Style Tetradrachm c138/7 BC
    Obs : Athena Parthenos right in tri-form helmet
    33mm 16.87gm Thompson issue 27
    Thompson catalogue : 288a
    Rev : ΑΘΕ ethnic
    Owl standing on overturned panathenaic amphora on
    which month mark Α control ΗΡ in LF
    LF - ΓΛΑΥ RF - ΕΧΕ
    2 magistrates
    RF symbol : Radiate facing bust of Helios
    All within a surrounding olive wreath
     
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  3. tibor

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  4. +VGO.DVCKS

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    @Alegandron, it's really cool, especially in convergence with the historical context, that this imitates Venetian grossos, which were already imitating earlier Byzantine motifs. Sort of cultural chickens coming home to roost.
    Edit: What am I saying... here's one of Jacopo Tiepelo, Doge 1229-1249. Sorry for the double (Edit: Oops, make that quadruple) vision.
    COINS, VENICE, IA. TIEPOLO 1.jpg COINS, VENICE, IA. TIEPOLO 1.jpg
     
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  5. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Wow, cool.

    I think Constantinople should had sued Venice for copyright infringement!

    Perhaps you could pay me a royalty...

    :)
     
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  6. cmezner

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  7. cmezner

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    Apart from the ones with Madonna and baby Jesus, (which I think are not meant for this tread:D) here is one of mine showing Jesus:

    1 Zecchino (Dukat), Venice 1400 - 1413
    20 mm, 3.548 g
    Friedberg 1230, Biaggi 2858

    Ob.: MICHAEL STEN S•/M•/V•/E/N/E/T/I St. Mark standing at left presenting staff with pennant and DVX vertically at top to doge kneeling at right, at center top D//V//X//
    Rev.: SIT•T•XPE•DAT•Q•TV / REGIS•ISTE•DVCAT full length facing Christ within beaded ellipse lined with stars.

    Michele Steno, (Michiel Sten in Venetian Language; 1331 - December 26, 1413) was a Venetian statesman who served as the 63rd Doge of Venice from December 1, 1400 until his death.

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  8. Nvb

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    AV Histamenon of Basilius II 976-1025
    Christ facing
    Basil and Constantine facing, with cross
    4.42g
    25mm
    Sear 1800, Ratto 1945
    Ex Sternberg VI, 1976 lot 1032

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