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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3903386, member: 44316&quot;]The story of the OP type is told here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/ConVII.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/ConVII.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/ConVII.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Read it and you will see why coins of Romanus I are sometimes attributed to Constantine VII, even though their legend references only Romanus. <font size="4">Romanus I ruled 920-944, <b>inside</b> the reign of Constantine VII (913-959). The site explains how this happened. The OP coin is best attributed to Romanus I.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Here is a Constantine VII:</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]1028848[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Here is a Romanus I:</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]1028849[/ATTACH]</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">These are discussed on that web page, so I will not discuss them more here. </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/ConVII.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/ConVII.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/ConVII.html</a></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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