Description
Collection Number: WC 11498
Object Number:
Dates: 914 - 919
Dimensions: 24.69mm
Weight: 4.28g
Authority: Constantine VII
Languages: Greek
Obverse Type: COS ‘CZO 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:
CO[S]( ‘C)ZO Hb'
Obverse Inscription Languages: Greek
Obverse Mintmarks:
N/A
Obverse Inscription Comment: N/A
Reverse Type: COS/IO/CZOHbA’/SILISRO/EO
Reverse Legend:
(C)OS/(I)[]O/C(ZO)HbA/[SI](LI)SRO/EO
Reverse Inscription Languages: Greek
Reverse Mintmarks:
N/A
Reverse Inscription Comments: Blundered letters, old die?
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
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