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Note added at 8 minutos (2009-07-21 16:52:33 GMT)
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Icons and systems of iconography » **Iconographic types**
There are many fundamentally different points of departure in the ways of conceiving the contents of religious pictures and of forming them. These differences, which go back to very early times, continue to exist side by side throughout the history of religions, some dominating at one time while others recede in importance.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/497416/religious-s...

SILVER COinAGe (‘sceat’ / pening)
Pening / Penny
Features:
Silver
Small, thick, and dumpy, c. 1.3g in weight
Generally anonymous (some royal legends on Northumbrian and East Anglian issues)
Great variety of **iconographic types***
http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/js73/ase/COINAGE_ECONOMY.htm

Curator's comments
There are three ***main iconographic types*** of St Nicholas known in Russian icon painting from the 13th–14th centuries onwards: ‘Nickola Myrlikijskij’, ‘Nickola Zarajskij’ and ‘Nickola Mozhajskij’. The latter type in which the saint is depicted holding a sword and a model of the town of Mozhaisk first appears in the 14th century and becomes popular in the icon painting of the Moscow area. According to legend in 1302 Mozhaisk was under siege by the Tatars who were trying to starve the inhabitants out.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/online_research_catalo...