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Auction: 24121 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 34: Ancient Coins, featuring the Collection of Dr Hugh Shire - e-Auction
Lot: 282

Byzantine Empire, Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, with Romanus II (955-959), AV Solidus, Constantinople, +IhS XPS REX REGNANTIUM, bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, rev. crowned busts of Constantine, wearing loros, and Romanus, wearing chlamys, facing, holding patriarchal cross between them, 4.43g (SB 1751; DOC 15; Füeg 15.C.2), well-struck, some slight wear and a blemish to the right portrait, otherwise good very fine

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£650

Starting price
£400