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ID number: BIRBI-B4556 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Leo III; Syracuse Denomination: Forty nummi Place made: Sicily: Syracuse Culture: Byzantine Date made: 717-741 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.10 Weight (g): 2.64 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4022. Bt Spink Feb 1962. |

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Description: Obverse: bust of Leo facing, wearing chlamys and holding globus cruciger in right hand and akakia in left. Reverse: bust of Constantine, atop bar, wearing chlamys and holding globus cruciger in right; below bar, denomination mark.
Inscriptions: Mint-mark [S]C[L]
Bibliography: Cf. DOC III.1 pl. V Æ54a
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