Aksum: An African Civilisation of Late Antiquity — illustration 1, PDF page 165
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- Habesha History book corpus — Aksum: An African Civilisation of Late Antiquity
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- Aksum: An African Civilisation of Late Antiquity
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- Aksum: An African Civilisation of Late Antiquity; PDF page 165; embedded illustration 1, exact source rectangle 192.0, 392.25, 420.0, 622.5
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- 165
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- 1991
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Illustration 52. Drawings of the coinage of king Gersem of Aksum, consisting of two gold types (d. c. 17mm), a silver type (d. c. 16mm) which sometimes shows vowelling on some of the letters, and two bronze types (d. c. 16mm); the first of the bronze types bears the motto `He conquers through Christ'.
Illustration 53. Drawings of gold coins (d. c. 16mm) of kings Ella Gabaz and Ioel; the Greek legends are beginning to grow more barbarous at this period.
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