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ID number: BIRBI-B4555 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): 2.00 Weight (g): 3.13 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3047. Bt Spink Nov 1955. |

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Description: Obverse: busts of Constantine and son Leo facing, wearing chlamys and cross crown, a cross between their heads. Reverse: bust of Leo III facing, atop bar with double pellet at 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: N / X (Year 10). Off. A.
Bibliography: Cf. DOC III.1 pl. IX Æ11 or BN II pl. LXVII Æ/03 but with reversed N X, which is unknown this late
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