Histamenon Nomisma / Ιστάμενον Νόμισμα EL 26

SHH 421

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4.30 g   24.1-28.1 mm Christ standing facing on footstool, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and collobium, and crowning Romanus on left and Eudocia on right, both standing facing, each wears saccos and loros, and holds globus cruciger; on either side of Christ's head IC (with overbar) / XC; [+ΡΩΜΑΝ] / ΕVΔOΚIA; double boarder of dots. Michael in centre, Constantius on left andd Andronicus on right all standing facing, and all beardless; Michael wears crown, saccos and loros, and holds labarum and akakia; his two brothers each wear the same costume, and hold globus cruciger and akakia; ΚΩΝ / ΜΧ / ΑΝΔ; double boarder of dots. ? BMC 2; Dumbarton Oaks III.2 2; Sear Byzantine 1861