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Auction 24  22 May 2022
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Lot 461

Estimate: 12 500 CHF
Price realized: 15 000 CHF
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Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, 913-959. Solidus (Gold, 19 mm, 4.24 g, 6 h), Constantinople, circa 945. +IhS XPS ReX ReGNANTIYM Nimbate bust of Christ facing, wearing pallium and columbium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. Rev. + COhSTAh - T,AVTCRATIOho Crowned bust of Constantine VII facing, with long beard and wearing a loros, holding, in his right hand, a patriarchal cross on a globus. DOC 13a.1 (same dies). SB 1747. Extremely rare. Clear and well-centered. Minor marks and traces of die rust, otherwise, about extremely fine.
From a European collection, ex Numismatica Ars Classica 92, 23 May 2016, 988.
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