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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4842 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Romanos I Lekapenos; Christopher Lekapenos; Constantinople Denomination: Nomisma Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 921-931 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.10 Weight (g): 4.34 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 555. Glendining, 1922. |
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Description: Obverse: Christ enthroned facing on lyre-backed throne, wearing tunic with r. hand raised in blessing and holding gospel on l. knee. Reverse: Romanos on l. facing, bearded, wearing loros and crown with cross; to r. facing bust of Christopher, beardless and smaller than Romanos, wearing chlamys and crown with cross. Both holding long patriarchal cross between them. Inscriptions: Obverse: +IhS XRS RЄX RЄGNANTIЧM (Jesus Christ King of Kings). Reverse: RomAh'ЄT XPISTOFO'AЧʕʕL' (Romanos and Christopher Emperors of the Romans) Bibliography: DOC III.2 pl. XXXVI AV7.3
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4 Related People | |
| Romanos I Lekapenos Armenian 948 | |
| Haines, Geoffrey Colton British 1899 1981-09-14 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Christopher Lekapenos Byzantine 931 | |
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