Constantine VII with Romanus II (945-959), Solidus, Constantinople; AV (4,33 g; 20 mm; 6 h)
+IhS XPS RЄX RЄϚNANTIЧM Half-length bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger with three pellets in each limb, pallium and colobium, r. hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels cradled in l.; single border; Rv. COhSTAhT CЄ ROmAh' AЧϚϚ I'R', crowned facing busts of Constantine VII (on l.), bearded, wearing loros, and Romanus II (on r.), wearing chlamys, jointly holding patriarchal cross with globular terminus between them. DOC 15; Sear 1751. Extremely fine.