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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Comnen Dynasty| > |Romanus IV| > BZ82884
Byzantine Anonymous Follis of Christ, Class G, Romanus IV, 1 January 1068 - 19 August 1071 A.D.
|Romanus| |IV|, |Byzantine| |Anonymous| |Follis| |of| |Christ,| |Class| |G,| |Romanus| |IV,| |1| |January| |1068| |-| |19| |August| |1071| |A.D.|, The maphorium (maphorion) was a loose sleeveless hooded outerwear mantel, cloak or shawl, worn by medieval women outdoors in public. The Virgin Mary is most often depicted wearing a maphorium, as seen in the icon below. It is a cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. At many stages of medieval culture it was unseemly for a married woman to show her hair. A maphorium might be elaborately starched, and creased and folded in prescribed ways, even supported on wire or wicker framing.
BZ82884. Bronze anonymous follis, Anonymous follis of Christ, DOC III-2, class G; SBCV 1867, Choice gVF, Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) mint, weight 5.312g, maximum diameter 26.6mm, die axis 180o, obverse bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium, and colobium, raising right in benediction, scroll in left hand, IC - XC (Greek abbreviation: Jesus Christ) across field, border of large pellets; reverse facing bust of the Virgin Orans, nimbate and wearing pallium and maphorium, MP - ΘV (Greek abbreviation: Mother of God) across field; border of large pellets; scarce; SOLD










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