Tetarteron of Constantine X and Romanos IV

Tetarteron of Constantine X and Romanos IV

It seems that different dies were mixed to create this bronze Byzantine tetarteron. The obverse, which depicts the Virgin, seems to use the same die as a coin from a coin of Constantine X. The image of Christ on the reverse appears to have been struck from a die of Romanos IV. The inscriptions are illegible due to overstriking. Minted in Constantinople.

Harvard Art Museums http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/96997?position=1

c. 1070

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from the Trustees of the Arthur Stone Dewing Greek Numismatic Foundation

35.2005.182