Romanus I Lecapenus (AD 920-944), with Christopher. AV solidus (19mm, 6h). NGC Choice XF, scuff. Constantinople, ca. AD 924-931. + IhS XPS RЄX-RЄΣnAnTIЧM*, Christ enthroned facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, book of Gospels in left / ROmAn' ЄT XPISTOFO' AЧΣΣ' b', crowned facing busts of Romanus I (on left), with short beard, wearing loros, and Christopher (on right), beardless, wearing chlamys pinned at right shoulder, jointly holding patriarchal cross with globular base between them. Sear 1745.

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