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Weekly Auction 232010  –  5 - 6 March 2020

Heritage Auctions, Weekly Auction 232010

Ancient and World Coins

Part 1: Th, 05.03.2020, from 3:00 AM CET
Part 2: Fr, 06.03.2020, from 3:00 AM CET
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Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus and Romanus II (AD 945-963). AV solidus (19mm, 4.36 gm, 6h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 4/5. Constantinople, AD 950-955. + IhS XPS RЄX RЄϚNANTIЧM, facing half-length bust of Christ, wearing nimbus cruciger with two pellets in each limb, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, book of Gospels in left; single border / COhSTAhT CЄ ROmAh' AЧϚϚ I'R', crowned facing busts of Constantine VII (on left), wearing loros, and Romanus II (on right), wearing chlamys pinned at right shoulder, jointly holding patriarchal cross with globular terminus between them. Sear 1751.

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