Constantine VII and Romanus II. Solidus; Constantine VII and Romanus II; 913-959 AD. Constantinople, c. 945-59 AD, Solidus, 4.44g. Berk-278, Sear-1751. Obv: +IhS XPS REX REGNANTIUmI Bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus decorated with cross (with three pellets in the two horizontal limbs of cross, but only two pellets in the vertical limb), and raising r. hand in benediction; in l. hand, book of Gospels. Rx: CONSTANT CE ROMAN\' A??? b R Facing busts of Constantine VII, with short beard (on l.) and Romanus II beardless (on r.), both crowned and holding between them long patriarchal cross; Constantine is wearing a loros while his son wears a chlamys. The obverse legend mistakenly ends with an I instead of the expected +.. VF