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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;arnoldoe, post: 2593173, member: 72712&quot;]Nice, i still don&#039;t have a Tiberius II coin, i found out&nbsp; that the boring cross on the steps design that stuck around for about 100 years was supposedly his idea too.</p><p><br /></p><p>“ And further he also made a public profession of being a Christian; for Justin had introduced in the coinage of his darics a female figure, which was generally compared to Venus, and this Tiberius discontinued, and had a cross struck upon the reverse of his coins: and this act, as he himself said, was dictated to him in a vision.</p><p><img src="http://cngcoins.com/photos/enlarged/3560627.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think he was referring to replacing Constantinopolis reverse of Justin II with his &quot;vision&quot; of the cross on the steps.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://cngcoins.com/photos/big/867802.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/ephesus_3_book3.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/ephesus_3_book3.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/ephesus_3_book3.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Also&nbsp; I think you are overrating him as an emperor a little bit<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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