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ID number: BIRBI-B4553 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constantine V; Leo IV; Constantinople Denomination: Forty nummi Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 751-775 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 1.85 Weight (g): 2.27 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2824. Bt Glendining 3.v.51 lots 110/112. |

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Description: Obverse: busts of Constantine and son Leo facing, wearing chlamys and cross crown with a cross floating between their heads. Reverse: bust of Leo III facing, atop bar with two pellets side-by-side either end, wearing loros and crown and holding cross potent in right hand, a cross in field r.; below bar, denomination mark dividing date.
Inscriptions: Reverse: X / N (Year 10). Off A.
Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl. IX Æ11 BN II pl. LXVII Æ/03
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