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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4852 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): 2.20 Weight (g): 4.38 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1056. A. H. Baldwin, November 1961, 'probably ex Gantz 1943'. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ Pantokrator, beard straight, gospel clasped under l. shoulder. Two pellets in nimbus above. 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 XΓS RЄX RЄCNANTIЧM (Jesus Christ King of Kings). Reverse: COhSτAhτ CЄ RomAh'AчʕʕbR (Constantine and Romanos Emperors of the Romans) Bibliography: DOC III.2 pl. XXXVII AV15.23
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| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantine VII Byzantine 905 959 | |
| Romanos II Byzantine 939 963 | |
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