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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4908 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): 2.50 Weight (g): 5.25 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2936. J. Schulman, May 1955. |
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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… (Constantine and Romanos, Emperors of the Romans). Reverse: ...Ohsτ ... ROMAh Єh XRISτ ...ROM... (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), obverse on reverse, inscription visibile reading: [h SILЄVS RO…] with face of Romanos visible on reverse wearing crown and carrying labarum in r. hand, inscription reading: [RWMAN'b…] |
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4 Related People | |
| Constantine VII Byzantine 905 959 | |
| Romanos II Byzantine 939 963 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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