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ICONOGRAPHY AND ICONOCLASM.

learned author of the "Christian Iconography," of whose work some account was given in the first number of the Archæological Journal.

In illustration of the same subject the following specimens of Christian Iconography from coins are here submitted to the consideration of the readers of this Journal:—

Coins illustrative of Christian Iconography
Coins illustrative of Christian Iconography

No. 1. A gold coin of Basilius I. and his father Constantinus, c. A.D. 867.

No. 2. A copper coin of Johannes Zimisces, c. A.D. 969.

No. 3. A gold coin of Alexius Comnenus, c. A.D. 1080.

No. 4. A gold coin of Constantinus VII. and his associate in the empire, Romanus Locapenus, c. A.D. 912.