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LOT 2700
Ancient Byzantine Coins - Constantine VII with Romanus I and Christ - AV Gold Solidus 913-959 AD
Obv: +IhS XPS REX REGNANTIUM*, Christ Pantocrator nimbate, seated facing, raising right hand in benediction and holding book of gospels. Rev: ROMAn ET XPISTOFO' AUGG b', facing busts of Romanus I with short beard and loros, on left, and son, beardless, with chlamys, on right, both crowned and holding long patriarchal cross between them. About extremely fine.(4.37 grams, 21 mm.).
Provenance
Ex Richard Falkiner, 2000s.
Literature
DO 7; Sear 1745.
Footnotes
Romanos Lekapenos was a usurper. Of peasant origins he rose through the ranks of the military into the imperial court eventually ousting the regency government of Zoe Karvounopsina and Leo Phokas that had been ruling in the name of the underage heir to the Macedonian dynasty, Constantine VII. After marrying the young Constantine porphyrogennitos to his daughter Helena in 919, Romanos named himself basileopater, (‘Father of the Emperor’), was raised to the rank of Caesar in 920, and crowned emperor later the same year. He associated three of his sons (Christopher, Stephen, and Constantine) with himself, while the fourth, Theophylakt, was later named patriarch.
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LOT 2700
Ancient Byzantine Coins - Constantine VII with Romanus I and Christ - AV Gold Solidus
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040
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Ancient Byzantine Coins - Constantine VII with Romanus I and Christ - AV Gold Solidus 913-959 AD
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040
Obv: +IhS XPS REX REGNANTIUM*, Christ Pantocrator nimbate, seated facing, raising right hand in benediction and holding book of gospels. Rev: ROMAn ET XPISTOFO' AUGG b', facing busts of Romanus I with short beard and loros, on left, and son, beardless, with chlamys, on right, both crowned and holding long patriarchal cross between them. 4.37 grams, 21 mm.
About extremely fine.
Ex Richard Falkiner, 2000s.
Romanos Lekapenos was a usurper. Of peasant origins he rose through the ranks of the military into the imperial court eventually ousting the regency government of Zoe Karvounopsina and Leo Phokas that had been ruling in the name of the underage heir to the Macedonian dynasty, Constantine VII. After marrying the young Constantine porphyrogennitos to his daughter Helena in 919, Romanos named himself basileopater, (‘Father of the Emperor’), was raised to the rank of Caesar in 920, and crowned emperor later the same year. He associated three of his sons (Christopher, Stephen, and Constantine) with himself, while the fourth, Theophylakt, was later named patriarch. -
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Ancient Byzantine Coins - Romanos III - Gold AV Histamenon 1028-1034 A.D.
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Obv: +IhS XIS REX REGNANTInM, Christ enthroned facing, nimbus cross behind head, holding book of gospels and raising right hand, double border. Rev: QCE bOHQ MQRWMAnW, Romanus on left, wearing a saccos and loros and holding cross on globe, with *seven* dots on the fold of robe hanging below, being crowned by Mary, nimbate, on right, (MQ between their heads), double border. 4.40 grams, 23 mm.
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The histamenon (‘standard coin’) was the name given to the gold Byzantine solidus to distinguish it from the less valuable tertarteron introduced in the 960s. Nomisma is the ancient Greek word for money.
