Byzantine coin – HCR61099

Obverse

Inscription:

+CONSTANT'CEZOHb'

Design:

Busts of Constantine and Zoe holding patriarchal cross between them. Constantine wears crown with cross and pendilia, imperial tunic and loros, Zoe wears crown with cross, pinnacles and pendillia, imperial tunic, and chlamys fastened with a brooch from which three pendants hang

Reverse

Inscription:

+CONS TANTINO CEZOHbA SILISRO MEON

Information

Period

Byzantine

Category

Middle Byzantine coin

Group

Authority

Byzantium: empire

Person

Constantine VII and colleagues, Byzantine emperor, 913-959

Dating

914-919

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denomination

Follis

Metal

copper

Technique

struck

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

8.86

Diameter (mm)

27.3

Acquisition method

transfer

Acquisition date

1922

Source

Bodleian Library

Acquisition credit

Transferred from the Bodleian Library, 1922.

Reference

P. Grierson - 1973 - Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks collection and the Whittemore collection. Volume Three Part II. Basil I to Nicephorus III (867-1081) : 22

Contributors to this coin record

jmairat, nristovska, jbaker