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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1427726, member: 19463&quot;]THIS shrikes me as weird.&nbsp; The museum link identifies the coin to the dates 668-685 AD which would make it Constantine IV but they do not bother to identify the coin to ruler leaving it as just Byzantine culture.&nbsp; They spend a line telling who donated the coin in 1904 but consider the place of an art museum to stop short of educating us on history.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine IV is later than what we think of even as the better art in the Byzantine period so this coin is not typical even of the reduced expectations mentioned above.&nbsp; I don&#039;t like fighting over whose art period is finer since we will each have our opinions on whether there is merit in each period.&nbsp; Byzantine continued to develop and become less representational until at the end portraits were made with the fewest possible lines. My John VIII below is late-late Byzantine and typical for its 15th century time.&nbsp; Crude? Ugly? No, just 15th century Byzantine.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH]174204.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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