Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 365
I was a figureof the emperor holding orb and Labarum and settinghis foot upon the neck of a crouching barbarian. Inthe coins of Valentinian, Satan, in the form of aserpent with angel-head, is substituted for the bar- COINS, MEDALS, AND GEMS. 341 barian. In the time of Majorian an angel \s… … Coin of Justin I. (518 A.D.). of Tlieodosius, has a winged figure—a victory—hold-ing a shield marked with the monogram. In a coinof Placidia, the daughter of Theodosius holds a crossin the shape in which it first appears upon thesarcophagi. Justinian II., on his recovery of the empire, placeda…
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