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The Collections | Coins | In Focus | Byzantine Coins | The Visual Dynamics of Byzantine Coinage
Byzantine Coins
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Hagia Sophia, mosaic of Virgin Mary flanked by an imperial couple |
The Visual Dynamics of Byzantine Coinage
The coinage of the eastern Roman empire survived the barbarian onslaught of late antiquity. Gradual changes in the coin iconography, language, and style reflect the transition from the Hellenistic to the Christian, and eastern-oriented profile of emperors. Coins and other artistic media always presented the emperor as a world monarch and guardian of the Christian faith, and often propagated ideas of dynastic continuity in an empire where hereditary succession was never firmly established.
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| Alexios I Komnenus | Isaac I Komnenus | Andronicus II Palaeologos |
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