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ID number: BIRBI-B4855 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Maker: Constantine VII; Constantinople Denomination: Nomisma Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 945 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.00 Weight (g): 4.52 Axis (degrees): 180.00 |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ Pantokrator, beard straight, gospel clasped under l. shoulder. Reverse: Bust of Constantine facing, bearded, wearing loros and crown with cross and pendilia, holding in l. hand a globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: +IhS XPS RЄK RЄGNANTIЧM (Jesus Christ King of Kings). Reverse: COhSτAn τ AVτCRAτnl (Constantine Emperor of the Romans)
Bibliography: DOC III.2 pl. XXXVI AV13a.3
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