Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (AD 913-959), with Romanus II. AV solidus (20mm, 4.34 gm, 6h). NGC AU 5/5 - 2/5, polished, edge marks, scuffs. Constantinople, AD 950-955. + IhS XPS RЄX RЄϚNANTIЧM, half length bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger with two pellets in each limb, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in left; single border / COhStAht CЄ ROmAh' AЧϚϚ I'R', crowned facing busts of Constantine VII (on left), bearded, wearing loros, and Romanus II (on right), wearing chlamys pinned at right shoulder, jointly holding patriarchal cross with globular terminus between them. Sear 1751. The later gold coinage of Constantine VII often boast highly refined portraits of Christ, as does this example.

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