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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4875 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Romanos I Lekapenos; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 931-944 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.80 Weight (g): 5.25 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3639. A. H. Baldwin, April 1949. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Romanos facing, bearded, wearing chlamys and crown with cross, holding globus cruciger in l. hand and labarum in r. hand resting over r. shoulder. Reverse: Bust of Constantine facing, beardless, to l. wearing a loros and crown with pendilia and a cross, with Zoe taller to r. wearing chlamys and crown with pendilia and a cross. They hold between them a long cross. Inscriptions: Obverse: +COhS Tahτ… ZO… RW (Constantine and Zoe, Emperors of the Romans). Reverse: RWMA h'ЄxϴЄW b… τILЄHS RW …Wh (Romanos, by God Emperor of the Romans). Bibliography: DOC III.2 pl. XXXVIII AE25 Notes: Overstruck on follis of Constantine VII with Zoe (DOC III.2, AE22), obverse on reverse. |
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3 Related People | |
| Romanos I Lekapenos Armenian 948 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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