Ancients Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus and Romanus II (AD

Ancients
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus and Romanus II (AD 945-963). AV solidus (20mm, 4.43 gm, 7h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5. Constantinople, AD 950-955. + IhS XPS RЄX RЄϚNANTIЧM, half length bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger with three pellets in each limb, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in left; single border / COhStAht CЄ ROmAh' AЧϚϚ I'R', crowned facing busts of Constantine VII (on left), bearded, wearing loros, and Romanus II (on right), wearing chlamys pinned at right shoulder, jointly holding patriarchal cross with globular terminus between them. Sear 1751. Eye-catching luster when rotated in hand.

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