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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Comnen Dynasty| > |Romanus IV| > SH87499
Byzantine Empire, Romanus IV Diogenes, 1 January 1068 - 19 August 1071
|Romanus| |IV|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Romanus| |IV| |Diogenes,| |1| |January| |1068| |-| |19| |August| |1071|, Due to their distinctive iconography, these histamenon types were nicknamed "six-headers" in their day.
SH87499. Gold histamenon nomisma, DOC III-2 1.1; Morrisson BnF 53/Cp/AV/02; Wroth BMC 1; Sommer 54.1; SBCV 1859; Ratto -, F/VF, scyphate, some scratches, holes for pendant, Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) mint, weight 3.938g, maximum diameter 27.0mm, die axis 180o, 1 Jan 1068 - 19 Aug 1071; obverse KWN MX ANΔ, Michael standing facing on footstool, transverse labarum in right hand, akakia in left hand, flanked by Constantius and Andronicus, each standing facing on an individual footstool, each holding akakia in inner hand and globus cruciger in outer hand; reverse + PWMANS EVΔUKIA, Jesus Christ standing facing on footstool, crowning Romanus and Eudocia, each holds a globus cruciger in inner hand, IC - XC (Greek abbreviation: Ihsoús Xristós - Jesus Christ) flanking Christ's head; from the Robert Watcher Collection; SOLD











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