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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4848 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constantine VII; Romanos II; Constantinople Denomination: Nomisma Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 945-959 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.00 Weight (g): 4.41 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0002. L. S. Forrer, July 1949. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ Pantokrator, beard straight, gospel clasped under l. shoulder. Reverse: Constantine on l. facing, bearded, wearing loros and crown with cross; to r. facing bust of Romanos, beardless and smaller than Constantine, 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: COhSτAhτ CЄ RomAh'AчʕʕRR (Constantine and Romanos Emperors of the Romans) Bibliography: DOC III.2 pl. XXXVII AV15.28
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| Romanos II Byzantine 939 963 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Constantine VII Byzantine 905 959 | |
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