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Cook Islands $ 5 Saint Christopher Silver Gilded Oval Coin with Swarovski 2009
Cook Islands $ 5 Saint Christopher Silver Gilded Oval Coin with Swarovski 2009Face Value : 5 dollars. Metal Purity : Silver 0.999. Dimensions : 30 x 34. Saint Christopher is venerated by several Christian denominations as a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd-century Roman Emperor Decius (reigned 249251) or alternatively under the Roman Emperor Maximinus II Dacian (reigned 308313). There appears to be confusion due to the similarity in names “Decius” and “Dacian”. However his veneration only appears late in Christian tradition, and did not become widespread in the Western Church until the Late Middle Ages, although churches