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He and his son, the future emperor Leon IV. On the reverse, in turn, as a symbol of dynastic continuity, his deceased father Leon III holding the power of the cross

Constantine V Kopronim applied his father's policy, full of conflicts and religious controversy. His passionate support for iconoclasm and opposition to monasticism led to his slander by later Byzantine historians and writers, who slandered him as Kopronimos, which means "dung"