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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1951.31.4.1363
People
Constantine VII, Byzantine (r. 945 - 959)
Title
Solidusof 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
Denomination
solidus
Inscriptions and Marks
  • 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
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Descriptions

Description
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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