Savoca Coins
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Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, with Romanus I and Christopher AD 913-959. Struck circa AD 924-931. Constantinople
Solidus AV
17 mm, 4,16 g
+ IҺS XPS RЄX RЄGNANTIЧm ✱, Christ, nimbate, seated facing on throne, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels on his left knee with his left / ROmAҺ ЄT XPISTOFO AЧGG b', crowned facing busts of Romanus I, with short beard on the left and wearing loros, and Christopher, beardless on the right and wearing chlamys, holding, with their right hands, a long patriarchal cross between them.
very fine
DOC 7; Sear 1745.
From a British collection
Solidus AV
17 mm, 4,16 g
+ IҺS XPS RЄX RЄGNANTIЧm ✱, Christ, nimbate, seated facing on throne, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels on his left knee with his left / ROmAҺ ЄT XPISTOFO AЧGG b', crowned facing busts of Romanus I, with short beard on the left and wearing loros, and Christopher, beardless on the right and wearing chlamys, holding, with their right hands, a long patriarchal cross between them.
very fine
DOC 7; Sear 1745.
From a British collection