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ID number: BIRBI-B4519 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Leo III; Constantine V; Constantinople Denomination: Miliaresion Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 717-741 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.30 Weight (g): 2.05 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2435; bt Baldwin's 27th March 1954. |

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Description: Obverse: elongated cross potent on three steps inner two borders connected by three circles at the N., E. and W. points. Reverse: inscription in five lines.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IhSЧS XRISτЧS hICA (May Jesus Christ conquer). Reverse: LEOh/S COhSτ/Ah[...]IhEE/C θEЧ bA/SILIS (Leo and Constantine holy Emperors).
Bibliography: DOC III.1 AR22a BN II pl.LXVI AR/02
Notes: Overstrike - over a post-reform Umayyad dirham
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