14C185
JOHN VIII PALAEOLOGUS
AR Stavraton (7.02gm)
Constantinople, 1423-1448 A.D.

Facing bust of Christ / Facing bust of John VIII.
DO Class 3a. LPC p. 172, 1.

John VIII was the next to last of the Byzantine emperors. His successor, his brother Constantine XI, was the last Byzantine emperor when Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453.

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