Ancient Art & Numismatics
B27 An Excessively Rare and Magnificent Byzantine Gold Solidus of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (913-959 C.E.), an Exceptional Depiction of the Aged Emperor and Christ
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. 913-959. Solidus (Gold, 19mm, 4.36 g 6), 27 January - 6 April 945. +IhS XPS REX REႺ NANTIႷ M✳ Facing bust of Christ Pantocrator, wearing tunic, himation and a cross nimbus with three pellets in the arms, raising right hand in benediction and holding Gospel book in his left. Rev. +COnSTAnT AVTCRAT b’ R’ Bust of Constantine VII facing, with long beard, wearing crown with pendilia and chlamys with tablion, and holding a globus with a patriarchal cross in his right hand. DOC 13b. SB 1747. Extremely rare. With an excellent portrait of the by now 40 year old emperor. Nearly extremely fine.
Ex Bank Leu 45, 26 May 1988, 423.
Finally freed from the tutelage of Romanus I, this solidus was issued during the short period when Constantine VII ruled alone. The portrait is one of the finest to appear on any coin of the middle Byzantine period.
NOMOSFPL2012, 75
B27 An Excessively Rare and Magnificent Byzantine Gold Solidus of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (913-959 C.E.), an Exceptional Depiction of the Aged Emperor and Christ
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. 913-959. Solidus (Gold, 19mm, 4.36 g 6), 27 January - 6 April 945. +IhS XPS REX REႺ NANTIႷ M✳ Facing bust of Christ Pantocrator, wearing tunic, himation and a cross nimbus with three pellets in the arms, raising right hand in benediction and holding Gospel book in his left. Rev. +COnSTAnT AVTCRAT b’ R’ Bust of Constantine VII facing, with long beard, wearing crown with pendilia and chlamys with tablion, and holding a globus with a patriarchal cross in his right hand. DOC 13b. SB 1747. Extremely rare. With an excellent portrait of the by now 40 year old emperor. Nearly extremely fine.
Ex Bank Leu 45, 26 May 1988, 423.
Finally freed from the tutelage of Romanus I, this solidus was issued during the short period when Constantine VII ruled alone. The portrait is one of the finest to appear on any coin of the middle Byzantine period.
NOMOSFPL2012, 75