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ID number: BIRBI-B4854 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): 1.90 Weight (g): 4.37 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1326. A. H. Baldwin, 10th January 1964, 'from Turkey'. |

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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 XIS RЄK RЄGNANTIЧM+ (Jesus Christ King of Kings). Reverse: COnSτAnτ CЄ RomAn'Aчʕʕb'RI (Constantine and Romanos Emperors of the Romans)
Bibliography: DOC III.2 pl. XXXVII AV15.33
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