This week's E-Sylum has an article on early images of Christ on coins, particularly those of Justinian II: https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n52.html#article17
Coin description: https://en.numista.com/414073
This week's E-Sylum has an article on early images of Christ on coins, particularly those of Justinian II: https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n52.html#article17
Coin description: https://en.numista.com/414073
A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick.
Margrieta van Varick (d. 1695) is known to us today primarily through a copy of her inventory, held by the New York State Archives. Numbering eighteen pages and completed by three assessors on May 29, 1696, it lists her household possessions as well as those that remained in stock at the small shop she kept at the time of her death
https://journalpanorama.org/article/a-trail-of-coins/ #globalmuseum #coins
St Andrew is depicted crucified on a saltire on this gold coin of King James II of Scotland that was minted sometime between 1451 & 1460. This coin was found in Glasgow Cathedral and donated to the Hunterian in 1816.
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