Constantinople, 945-946 AD. AU solidus, 4.41 gr., 21 mm.
Obv.: + IhS XPS RЄX-RЄϚNANTIЧm; Christ facing seated on throne with curved back, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium
and colobium, right hand raised in benediction and holding book of Gospels in left.
Rev.: + COhStAhtIhOS CЄ RO-MAh' Єh' Xw b' R'; Constantine VII on the right, bearded, wearing loros with cross on
sleeve, and Romanus II, on the left, crowned, standing facing figures of wearing chlamys with cross on front, both on
rectangular dais, globus cruciger in outer hand, jointly holding long
patriarchal cross with globular terminus between them.
Ref.: DOC 10.3. Sear 1749.
Rare. Nearly Extremely Fine.