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Lepton - Ezanas
| Issuer | Aksum |
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| Year | 345-360 |
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| Reference(s) | MHAC#41 , Hahn Ak#20 |
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| Obverse lettering | ΒΑCIΛЄΥC (Translation: King) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Ezanas ruled Aksum during one of the most consequential religious transitions in ancient African history — his reign saw the kingdom's official conversion to Christianity, making Aksum among the earliest states in the world to adopt it as a state religion. Coins issued under Ezanas document this shift directly, with earlier issues reflecting pre-Christian iconography and later ones incorporating the cross. This bronze lepton falls within that transitional window, placing it squarely in the reign's most historically charged phase.