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ID number: BIRBI-B4907 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): 2.70 Weight (g): 6.37 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1618. Seaby, September 1949. |

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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: ...M…ROMI (Constantine and Romanos, Emperors of the Romans). Reverse: ... ROMAh Єh XRISτ ...SMЄO (Constantine and Romanos, by Christ Emperors of the Romans)
Bibliography: DOC III.2 pl. XXXIX AE27.2
Notes: Overstruck on follis of Romanos I (DOC III.2 AE25), reverse on reverse.
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