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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
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