1059 AD - 1067 AD

Constantinus X Ducas   Constantinopolis
Imperium Byzantinum
Κωνσταντίνος Ι' Δουκάς   Κωνσταντινούπολις
Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία
Follis / Φόλλις AE 29
 SHH 7330

7330 Byzantine Constantine X Constantiople Follis AE

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Provenance
 13.84 g   28.5-30 mm   2.4 eqmm   tmax 3.1   rh 0.4 mm   6:00 o'clock   VF
σmax(SigmaTest, 240 kHz) = obv. 32.3; rev. 32.0 MS/m
Christ standing facing on footstool, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium
and holding book of gospels; IC / XC with overbars on either side;
+EM[MA] / NOVHΛ clopckwise around.
+KωNT ΔK / EVΔOK AVΓO blundered) around Eudocia to left and Constantine to right;
holding between them labarum, with cross on shaft, resting on three steps.
 No centering; no blank preparation grooves.
BMC 18/31; Dumbarton Oaks III/2 8; Sear Byzantine 1853
Ex Lydia Num. 6/728, 6.3.2021