WC 11400

Coin, AE, Constantine VII

Description

Collection Number: WC 11400
Object Number:
Dates: 914 - 919
Denomination: Nummus 40Follis
Dimensions: 24.63mm
Weight: 4.52g
Authority: Constantine VII
Mint: ConstantinopolisConstantinople
Languages: Greek

Obverse Type: COS ‘CZO Hb’; To left, bust of Constantine VI facing, beardless, wearing traditional loros and crown with cross. To right facing bust of Zoe wearing chlamys and crown with pendilia and cross flanked by two pinnacles. Between them they hold patriarchal cross
Obverse Legend:

COS() ‘CZO (H)b'

Obverse Inscription Languages: Greek
Obverse Mintmarks:

N/A

Obverse Inscription Comment: Blundered letters

Reverse Type: COS/IO/CZOHbA’/SILISRO/EO
Reverse Legend:

COS/IO/CZOHbA/SILISRO/EO

Reverse Inscription Languages: Greek
Reverse Mintmarks:

N/A

Reverse Inscription Comments: N/A

Bibliography

DOC III pp. 559-560 n. 22, Plate XXXVIII

BNP pp. 573-574 nn. 1-24, Plate LXXVIII

BMC vol. 2 pp. 452-453 nn. 1-24, Plate LII,2-3

Ratto p. 95 n. 1883, Plate XLIV

Sabatier p. n. 2, Plate XLVII,5

Sommer p. 286 n. 36.14

Sear 1758

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