1951.31.4.1363: Solidus of Constantine VII, Constantinople
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1951.31.4.1363
- People
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Constantine VII, Byzantine (r. 945 - 959)
- Title
- Solidus of Constantine VII, Constantinople
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 921 CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Constantinople (Thrace)
- Period
- Byzantine period, Middle
- Culture
- Byzantine
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/75082
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gold
- Metal
- AV
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 4.38 g
- Die Axis
- 7
- Denomination
- solidus
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Obverse Inscription: +KEbOHThetaEI ROM A nWdeltaECPOTH
- Reverse Inscription: XRISTOF'ETCONST'AYGG'B
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- DOC 3.2, 6.1 (p. 545)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore
- Accession Year
- 1951
- Object Number
- 1951.31.4.1363
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Obv.:To l., Romanus I standing, facing, bearded, wearing traditional loros, with fringed ornamented end passing over r. arm, and crown with cross and pendilia. In r. hand, gl. cr.; l. hand extended. To r., Christ standing (Type IVa) facing bearded, wearing tunic and himation, with cross behind his head, holding book with l. hand in fold of himation, crowning Romanos with r.
Rev.: To l., bust of Constantine VII facing, bearded, wearing loros and crown with cross. To r., bust of Christopher facing, bearded, wearing chlamys and crown with cross. Between them they hold patriarchal cross.
Publication History
- Alicia Walker, The Emperor and the World: Exotic Elements and the Imaging of Middle Byzantine Imperial Power, Ninth to Thirteen Centuries C.E., Cambridge University Press (New York, 2012), p. 51, fig. 18b.
Verification Level
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