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Constantine X, Æ Follis, King & Queen reverse

Æ 29mm/9.6gm Constantinople mint, struck c. 1059-1067 AD

Con/ Fine-Very Fine (for the issue); glossy jet black patina with eye-pleasing orange sand fill, clipped in antiquity

Obv/ +EMMA NOVHA; Christ standing facing on footstool, wearing nimbus and holding the book of Gospels, IC XC across fields

Rev/ EVDKARO +KWNTAK; On left, Eudocia standing facing, wearing modified loros with kite-shaped lower panel and crown with cross and pendilia; on right, Constantine standing facing, wearing modified loros and crown with cross and pendilia, both holding labarum with cross-piece on shaft between them, standing on base and three steps, and each places one hand on heart

Ref/ SBCV 1853

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