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Copper Cup Double Cross Banner Type - Stefan Radoslav
| Issuer | Serbia (medieval) |
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| Year | 1228-1233 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Two standing figures depicted facing, both holding a double cross banner between them. The figure on the left is identified as the Serbian king Stefan Radoslav, shown in imperial Byzantine attire. The figure on the right is Saint Constantine the Great, holding a labarum sceptre in his left hand. An inscription flanks the figures on either side of the field, identifying each by name in Cyrillic characters. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Stefan Radoslav ruled Serbia for roughly five years before being deposed by his own brother Vladislav, a dynastic struggle that left his coinage among the shortest-lived and least-documented of the Nemanjić series. His reign coincided with strong Byzantine cultural influence — Radoslav was married to a daughter of the Despot of Epirus and styled himself in Greek on official documents, an unusual posture for a Serbian ruler that almost certainly shaped the iconographic choices on his issues.
Jovanović's classification of this type remains the primary reference point, as medieval Serbian copper has attracted far less systematic scholarly attention than the silver issues.