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📣 Don't forget, ‪Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery‬ Curator Tom Cadbury will be teasing out the stories behind Exeter's incredible Saxon silver penny in an online talk on Thursday.
15 Jan | 6 to 7pm | £3.50
https://rammuseum.org.uk/whats-on/discover-exeters-king-alfred-the-great-penny/?utm_source=globalmuseum

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a 1,130 year old Saxon silver penny dating to the reign of King Alfred the Great
a 1,130 year old Saxon silver penny dating to the reign of King Alfred the Great
a 1,130 year old Saxon silver penny dating to the reign of King Alfred the Great
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Discover Exeter’s King Alfred the Great Penny

In May 2025 RAMM purchased a 1,130 year old Saxon silver penny dating to the reign of King Alfred the Great. It's only a small coin, about the size of a modern 20p, but it is hugely important to the history of Exeter. Not only is it the first coin…
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@CoinOfNote@hcommons.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

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

#Jesus #Numismatics #Coins #CoinCollecting @numismatics

Solidus - Justinian II Constantinopolis
Obverse
Half-length bust of Christ facing, with long hair and full beard, wearing pallium and colobium, cross behind head, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in left arm

Script: Latin

Lettering: IhS CRIStDS RЄX-RЄϚNANtIЧM

Translation: "Jesus Christ King of the Kings"

Reverse
Full-length figure of Justinian II standing facing, wearing crown and loros, cross potent with base on two steps in right hand, akakia in left

Script: Latin

Lettering:
D IЧStINI-AN-ЧS SERЧ CHRIStI Є (Є retrograde)
CONO-P

Translation: Our Lord Justinian Servant of Christi
Solidus - Justinian II Constantinopolis Obverse Half-length bust of Christ facing, with long hair and full beard, wearing pallium and colobium, cross behind head, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in left arm Script: Latin Lettering: IhS CRIStDS RЄX-RЄϚNANtIЧM Translation: "Jesus Christ King of the Kings" Reverse Full-length figure of Justinian II standing facing, wearing crown and loros, cross potent with base on two steps in right hand, akakia in left Script: Latin Lettering: D IЧStINI-AN-ЧS SERЧ CHRIStI Є (Є retrograde) CONO-P Translation: Our Lord Justinian Servant of Christi
Solidus - Justinian II Constantinopolis Obverse Half-length bust of Christ facing, with long hair and full beard, wearing pallium and colobium, cross behind head, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in left arm Script: Latin Lettering: IhS CRIStDS RЄX-RЄϚNANtIЧM Translation: "Jesus Christ King of the Kings" Reverse Full-length figure of Justinian II standing facing, wearing crown and loros, cross potent with base on two steps in right hand, akakia in left Script: Latin Lettering: D IЧStINI-AN-ЧS SERЧ CHRIStI Є (Є retrograde) CONO-P Translation: Our Lord Justinian Servant of Christi

E-Sylum v28n52, December 28, 2025

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@CoinOfNote@hcommons.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

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

#Jesus #Numismatics #Coins #CoinCollecting @numismatics

Solidus - Justinian II Constantinopolis
Obverse
Half-length bust of Christ facing, with long hair and full beard, wearing pallium and colobium, cross behind head, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in left arm

Script: Latin

Lettering: IhS CRIStDS RЄX-RЄϚNANtIЧM

Translation: "Jesus Christ King of the Kings"

Reverse
Full-length figure of Justinian II standing facing, wearing crown and loros, cross potent with base on two steps in right hand, akakia in left

Script: Latin

Lettering:
D IЧStINI-AN-ЧS SERЧ CHRIStI Є (Є retrograde)
CONO-P

Translation: Our Lord Justinian Servant of Christi
Solidus - Justinian II Constantinopolis Obverse Half-length bust of Christ facing, with long hair and full beard, wearing pallium and colobium, cross behind head, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in left arm Script: Latin Lettering: IhS CRIStDS RЄX-RЄϚNANtIЧM Translation: "Jesus Christ King of the Kings" Reverse Full-length figure of Justinian II standing facing, wearing crown and loros, cross potent with base on two steps in right hand, akakia in left Script: Latin Lettering: D IЧStINI-AN-ЧS SERЧ CHRIStI Є (Є retrograde) CONO-P Translation: Our Lord Justinian Servant of Christi
Solidus - Justinian II Constantinopolis Obverse Half-length bust of Christ facing, with long hair and full beard, wearing pallium and colobium, cross behind head, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in left arm Script: Latin Lettering: IhS CRIStDS RЄX-RЄϚNANtIЧM Translation: "Jesus Christ King of the Kings" Reverse Full-length figure of Justinian II standing facing, wearing crown and loros, cross potent with base on two steps in right hand, akakia in left Script: Latin Lettering: D IЧStINI-AN-ЧS SERЧ CHRIStI Є (Є retrograde) CONO-P Translation: Our Lord Justinian Servant of Christi

E-Sylum v28n52, December 28, 2025

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@globalmuseum@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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

A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama
A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama
A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama
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@globalmuseum@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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.
@CMaclean96 #globalmuseum #coins #numismatics

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