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Zacos_82aTheodora Lead Seal +EMMA—NOVHË, bust of Christ Emmanuel, bearded, facing; has nimbus cruciger with design of five dots in each limb of cross; wears chiton & himation; right hand half-raised before right shoulder in benediction; left holds book of the Gospels with jeweled cover; in field left & right, IC & XC; border of dots / +ÈEOÄWPA AV×OV—CTA H ÄOVË, bust of Theodora facing; wears crown with pendants and three triangular projections, chiton with high jeweled collar, divitision, circular shoulder-piece and loros; right holds scepter with trefoil top; left hand is half lifted before chest in supplication; border of dots. TextObverseReverse
Sear #1837 Theodora. 1055-1056 AD. AV Histamenon Nomisma. Constantinople mint. + IhS XIS REX REGNANTInM, Christ standing on footstool facing, holding Gospels / + QEO­WPA AVGOVSTA, Theodora & the Virgin standing facing, holding labarum with pellet on the shaft between them; M Q at the Virgin's shoulders.
Sear #1838 Theodora. 1055-1056 AD. AV Tetarteron Nomisma. Bust of Christ, holding Gospels; IC XC to left & right / +QEO­W AVGOVC, crowned bust of Theodora, holding scepter & globus cruciger.
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