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Ancient Byzantine Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus coin

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Ancient Byzantine Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus coin
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Ancient Byzantine VII Porphyrogenitus and Romanus II (AD 945-963). gold solidus (19mm, 4.34 gm, 6h). NGC VF 5/5 - 4/5. Constantinople, AD 950-955. + IhS XPS RЄX RЄNANTIЧM, facing half-length bust of Christ, wearing nimbus cruciger with three pellets in each limb, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, book of Gospels in left / COhSTAhT CЄ ROmAh' AЧΣ I'R', crowned facing busts of Constantine VII (on left), wearing loros, and Romanus II (on right), wearing chlamys pinned at right shoulder, jointly holding patriarchal cross between them. Sear 1751.