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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4844 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Romanos I Lekapenos; Constantine VII; Constantinople Denomination: Nomisma Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 931-944 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.00 Weight (g): 4.30 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 611. Glendining, 8th March 1957, 'Austrian diplomat, No. 630'. |
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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: Constantine standing l. facing, wearing chlamys and crown with cross, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, to r. Romanos standing facing, taller than Constantine, wearing loros with end trailing over l. arm, holding globus cruciger in l. hand. Both holding long patriarchal cross between them. Inscriptions: Obverse: +... RЄGNANTIЧM (Jesus Christ King of Kings). Reverse: +cohsτA...τIhos CЄ R…ωb (Constantine and Romanos Emperors of the Romans) Bibliography: DOC III.2 pl. XXXVI AV10.1 Notes: Pierced to l. of obverse. |
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| Constantine VII Byzantine 905 959 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Romanos I Lekapenos Armenian 948 | |
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