AN Solidus
Constantine VII
Byzantine
Constantinople
Asia Minor
Middle East
913-959
Gold
Overall: 13/16 in. (20 mm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Arthur Fairbanks, Class of 1886, in memory of his father, Henry Fairbanks, Class of 1853
27.1.29226
Geography
Place Made: Eastern Mediterranean, Turkey, West Asia, Asia
Period
500-1000
Object Name
Coin
Research Area
Numismatics: Greek and Roman
On view
Inscriptions
Obverse: Head of Christ facing wearing nimbus Reverse: Facing busts of Constantine VII and Romanus II
Course History
CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022
CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022
CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022
CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022
CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022
CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022
CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022
CLST 18.01/HIST 94.06, History of the Roman Empire, Roberta Stewart, Fall 2022
Economics 22.01, Macroeconomics, Jim Feyrer, Spring 2023
Economics 22.02, Macroeconomics, Jim Feyrer, Spring 2023
Economics 22.02, Macroeconomics, Jim Feyrer, Spring 2023
History 44.02, Arts of Power, from Augustus to the Sun King, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Spring 2023
Exhibition History
Money Talks: Roman Coinage in Global, Historical Context, Classical Studies 11, Professor Roberta Stewart, Gene Y. Kim Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 2, 2022-.
Provenance
Arthur Fairbanks (1864-1944), Class of 1886; given to present collection, 1927.
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