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ID number: BIRBI-B4841 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: Nomisma Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 921-931 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.05 Weight (g): 4.26 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 750. Dumbarton Oaks duplicates 158, 27th November 1958. |
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Description: Obverse: Facing bust of Romanos I, bearded, wearing loros with ornamented end passing over r. arm, and crown with cross and pendilia. In right hand holding globus cruciger. Facing Christ, standing, wearig tunic and himation, with cross behind head. Reverse: Facing bust of Constantine VII, bearded, wearing loros and crown with cross. Facing bust of Christopher to r., bearded, wearing chlamys and crown with cross. Patriarchal cross between them.
Inscriptions: Obverse: +KεbOHΘεI ROM A ηωdεCPOTH (Lord help Romanos despot). Reverse: CONSTANT' ET XPISTOF b (Constantine and Christopher emperors).
Bibliography: DOC III.2 pl. XXXVI AV5.1
Notes: Pierced
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