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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B4648
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Leo V; Constantine; Syracuse
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Sicily: Syracuse
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  813-820
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.25
Weight (g):  4.44
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 284; bt. W. S. Lincoln and Son 1922.
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Description:  Obverse: busts of Leo and Constantine beardless facing wearing chlamys and cross crown cross floating above between heads. Reverse: legend.

Inscriptions:  Reverse: Λ • K (Leo and Constantine)

Bibliography:  DOC III.1 pl.XIX AE19a, BN II pl.LXXI Sy/AE/01

Notes:  Overstruck, faint traces of lettering to right of right obverse bust.

4 Related People

Leo V
Armenian

820-12-25
Constantine
Armenian


Syracuse
Greek; Roman; Byzantine


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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
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