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ID number:  BIRBI-B4918
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Constantine VII; Kherson
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Crimean Peninsula: Kherson
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  945-959
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  1.80
Weight (g):  2.88
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 758. A. H. Baldwin, 1948.
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Description:  Obverse: Cross monogram of Constantine (cross, lower arm based on lower-case Omega, right arm connecting to a C, left arm to capital Nu, upper arm capital Tau with outwards-facing chevron to right of arm). Reverse: Cross monogram of Romanos (large capital Rho on Omega-shaped base, capital Mu on left arm and capital Alpha on right arm.)

Inscriptions:  Obverse: None. Reverse: None.

Bibliography:  DOC III.2 pl. XL AE38.1

3 Related People

Kherson
Greek, Byzantine.


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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
Constantine VII
Byzantine
905
959
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