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ID number: BIRBI-B4730 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Theophilos; Syracuse Denomination: Follis Place made: Sicily: Syracuse Culture: Byzantine Date made: 829-842 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.40 Weight (g): 3.17 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3651. |
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Description: Obverse: bust of Theophilos bearded facing, wearing chlamys and cross crown, left side of bust obscured by undertype. Reverse: M with cross above, left side of M obscured by undertype.
Inscriptions: Obverse: …LOS bASI (Theophilos emperor). Reverse: … NNN (corruption from 'year 30'). Control mark θ (9).
Bibliography: DOC III.1 AE30.
Notes: Overstruck on Michael II and Theophilos obverse on reverse at 180.
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