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ID number: BIRBI-B4920 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constantine VII; Kherson Denomination: Follis Place made: Crimean Peninsula: Kherson Culture: Byzantine Date made: 945-959 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.90 Weight (g): 3.09 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1988. B. A. Seaby, March 1949. |

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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 Eta, 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 Eta on left arm and capital Alpha on right arm.)
Inscriptions: Obverse: None. Reverse: None.
Bibliography: DOC III.2 pl. XL AE38.7
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