1321, Kingdom of Serbia, Stefan II Uros Milutin. Silver Gros Coin. NGC XF-45!

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1321, Kingdom of Serbia, Stefan II Uros Milutin.  Silver Gros Coin. NGC XF-45!
Denomination: Gros
Mint Period: 1282-1321
Reference: Jovanovic 7.1.1.
Condition:
Certified and graded by NGC as XF-45!
Diameter: 20mm
Material: Silver
Weight: 2gm
Obverse:
Stefan Uroš II standing facing on the left, holding akakia in his left hand, and St. Stefan, nimbate, standing facing on the right, holding book of Gospels in his left hand. Both holding banner between them.
Legend: REX (vertical along banner) VROSIVS•REX•S•STEFAN'
Reverse:
Enthroned Christ Pantokrator. Christogram (IC-XC) at sides.
At the end of Milutin's life Serbia was second in strength in Southeast Europe after Hungary. During his reign many court ceremonials were taken over from the Byzantine court and Byzantine culture overflowed into Serbia. After his death a short civil war followed, after which the Serbian throne was ascended by his eldest son, Stefan Dečanski. Stefan Milutin is mentioned in the Dante Alighieri's narrative poem Divine Comedy with the characteristics of counterfeiters due to the copying of Venetian money. He is included in The 100 most prominent Serbs.
In Eastern Christianity, the most widely used Christogram is a four-letter abbreviation,
ΙϹ ΧϹ
— a traditional abbreviation of the Greek words for "Jesus Christ" (i.e., the first and last letters of each of the words
"ΙΗϹΟΥϹ ΧΡΙϹΤΟϹ
, with the lunate sigma "Ϲ" common in medieval Greek), and written with titlo (diacritic) denoting scribal abbreviation (
І҃С Х҃С
).   On icons, this Christogram may be split: "ΙϹ" on the left of the     image and "ΧϹ" on the right. It is sometimes rendered as "ΙϹ ΧϹ ΝΙΚΑ",     meaning "Jesus Christ Conquers." "ΙϹΧϹ" may also be seen inscribed on     the Ichthys. In the traditional icon of Christ Pantokrator, Christ's   right hand is shown in a pose where his fingers bend and cross to form   the letters ΙϹ, Χ, and Ϲ.
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Stefan Uroš II Milutin
(Serbian Cyrillic:
Стефан Урош II Милутин
;
c.
1253 – 29 October 1321), known as
Stefan Milutin
(Стефан Милутин), was the King of Serbia between 1282–1321, a member of the Nemanjić dynasty. He was one of the most powerful rulers of Serbia in the Middle Ages. Milutin is credited with strongly resisting the efforts of Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos to impose Roman Catholicism on the Balkans after the Union of Lyons in 1274. During his regin, Serbian economic power grew rapidly, mostly due to the development of mining. He founded Novo Brdo, which became an internationally important silver mining site. As most of the Nemanjić monarchs, he was proclaimed a saint by the Serbian Orthodox Church with a feast day on October 30.
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