SINCONA Auction 37
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The Placidia Collection: Coins of Eastern Rome and the Byzantine Empire

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Starting price 1,000 CHF
Result unsold

Solidus 945-946.
Obv.+ IhS XRS RЄX RЄÇNANTIЧM Nimbate figure of Christ seated facing on high backed throne with curved arms decorated with pearls. He is wearing pallium and colobium; r. hand raised in benediction, Book of Gospels in left.
Rev.: COnSTAnT CE ROmAn AVGG b R Crowned busts of Constantinus VII. u. Romanus II., both holding a patriarchal cross between them. Constantinus in loros, Romanus in loros.
Sear 1750. DOC 14. Füeg, Nomismata 14.4.
4.39 g. Graffito on rev. Good very fine.
Purchased from Baldwin´s Lodon in May 1991.