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Leo VI the Wise (AD 886-912), with Constantine VII. AV solidus (21mm, 4.42 gm, 6h). NGC AU 4/5 - 3/5, light scuffs. Constantinople, AD 908-912. + IhS XPS RЄX-RЄΣNANTIЧm, full-length figure of Christ, seated facing on throne with curved back, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels in left / LЄOn ЄT COnStAnt´ ΛЧΣΣ´ ROm´, Leo VI (on left) and Constantine VII (on right) standing facing, both crowned and wearing loros and divitision decorated with a cross at end, holding patriarchal cross with globule terminus between them and each with globus cruciger in outer hand. SB 1725. DOC III, Part 1, 2.
From the Morris Collection. Ex. Classical Numismatic Group 28 (8 December 1993), lot 514.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 1000-2000 USD
Leo VI the Wise (AD 886-912), with Constantine VII. AV solidus (21mm, 4.42 gm, 6h). NGC AU 4/5 - 3/5, light scuffs. Constantinople, AD 908-912. + IhS XPS RЄX-RЄΣNANTIЧm, full-length figure of Christ, seated facing on throne with curved back, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels in left / LЄOn ЄT COnStAnt´ ΛЧΣΣ´ ROm´, Leo VI (on left) and Constantine VII (on right) standing facing, both crowned and wearing loros and divitision decorated with a cross at end, holding patriarchal cross with globule terminus between them and each with globus cruciger in outer hand. SB 1725. DOC III, Part 1, 2.
From the Morris Collection. Ex. Classical Numismatic Group 28 (8 December 1993), lot 514.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 1000-2000 USD