BYZANTINE EMPIRE:
ROMANUS I (A.D 920-944). AV solidus. + IHS XPS REX REGNANTIUM *, Christ enthroned, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, and raising right hand in benediction, in left hand book of Gospels)(ROMAN ET XPISOPO AVGG B, fcing busts of Romanus I on left and Christopher on right, both crowned, holding between them long patriarchal cross, Romanus wears loros, whilst his son is clad in chlamys. SB 1745. 4,19 g.
Grade: 1+ [VF]