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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4649 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Leo V; Constantine; Syracuse Denomination: Follis Place made: Sicily: Syracuse Culture: Byzantine Date made: 813-820 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 1.90 Weight (g): 3.16 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2853; A. H. Baldwin November 1948. |
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Description: Obverse: busts of Leo bearded and Constantine 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: 'Traces of overstriking' according to Whitting; possible very faint chlamys lines between heads on obverse and probable remnants of cross (from crown or sceptre) to top left of Λ on reverse. |
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4 Related People | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Leo V Armenian 820-12-25 | |
| Syracuse Greek; Roman; Byzantine | |
| Constantine Armenian | |
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