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Byzantine gold coin with image of Jesus unearthed by metal detectorist in Norway
By Jennifer Nalewicki
Live Science, New York
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
A metal detectorist discovered a thousand-year-old gold coin depicting Jesus Christ while exploring the mountains in Vestre Slidre, a municipality in southern Norway.
Known as a "histamenon nomisma," this type of small coin was introduced around A.D. 960. It shows Jesus holding a Bible on one side and, on the other, the images of Basil II and Constantine VII, two brothers who both ruled the Byzantine Empire, according to a translated statement.
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The western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in 476, while the Byzantine, or Eastern Roman Empire, continued on for another millennium.
Archaeologists think the coin was minted between 977 and 1025, during the brothers' reign, based on three dotted lines that circle the coin's border -- a design element commonly used during that period. The artifact also contains two inscriptions. The first, written in Latin, reads, "Jesus Christ, king of those who reign," and the second, in Greek, says, "Basil and Constantine, emperors of the Romans," according to the statement. ...
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