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Zeichen des Glaubens? Christliche Lesarten kaiserlicher Münzbilder in der Spätantike
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Marco Besl
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1. Oktober 2025
Abstract
Questioning Arnold H. M. Jones’ assertion that coin images and their political messages were scarcely recognised in antiquity, researchers have collected numerous evidence for the perception of coin images in ancient literature. Therefore, coins can indeed be regarded as a political medium of communication. Especially within literary discourses, however, ancient authors also used coin images as evidence of their own considerations and arguments which their readers could thus verify. This article examines how Christian authors of late antiquity appropriated coins and their images, and takes a look at the corresponding texts. In doing so, I would like to show how coin images acquired a special symbolic dimension through their Christian interpretation and thus gained argumentative relevance for Christian political discourses.
Keywords: Imperial coinage; Eusebius of Caesarea; Constantine; Ephraim Syriacus; Julian Apostata; interpretatio christiana
Published Online: 2025-10-01
Published in Print: 2025-09-25
© 2025 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
Imperial coinage;
Eusebius of Caesarea;
Constantine;
Ephraim Syriacus;
Julian Apostata;
interpretatio christiana
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- Titelseiten
- Artikel
- What Would an Ancient Person Think of a Talking Cross? Reading Gospel of Peter 10,38–42 as Ancient Mediterranean Religious Literature
- Martyrium Polycarpi 2,2–3,1 and the Question of an Earlier Archetype
- Justin the Seer: Viewing Christian Truth in the Second Century
- Quo peruersius quid dici potest? Tertullian’s De anima and Its Reception in the Literature and Thought of the Early Church
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- “Severe Initiation”, Monastic Personas, and Communal Membership in the Late-Antique Mediterranean
- Augustinian Theology in the Hispano-Mozarabic Eucharistic Prayers of the Holy Week
- Rezensionen
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