BZ65608. Bronze follis, DOC III-2 27; Wroth BMC 70; Morrisson BnF 37/Cp/AE/65; Ratto 1907; SBCV 1762, aF, overstruck, Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) mint, weight 6.593g, maximum diameter 27.9mm, die axis 135
o, 6 Apr 945 - 9 Nov 959 A.D.; obverse CONST CE ROMAN b ROM (Constantine and Romanus, Kings of the Romans), crowned busts of Constantine, with short beard and wearing vertical loros, on left, and Romanus II, wearing loros, unbearded, on right, holding patriarchal cross on globe between them; reverse + COnST / CE ROMAn / En XRIST / b ROMEO (Constantine and Romanus, by Christ, Kings of the Romans) in four lines;
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