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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4906 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: Follis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 950-959 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.60 Weight (g): 3.77 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1617. Andronikos, Istanbul, December 1950. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constantine facing, bearded, to l. wearing a loros and crown with pendilia and a cross, with smaller facing bust of Romanos to r., beardless, wearing loros and crown with pendilia and a cross. They hold between them a long cross. Reverse: None. Inscriptions: Obverse: +COhSτ' CЄ ROMAh' b'ROM (Constantine and Romanos, Emperors of the Romans). Reverse: +CXM CЄ ROMAh Єh XRISτ b'ROMЄO (Constantine and Romanos, by Christ Emperors of the Romans) Bibliography: DOC III.2 pl. XXXIX AE27.2
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4 Related People | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Constantine VII Byzantine 905 959 | |
| Romanos II Byzantine 939 963 | |
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