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ID number: BIRBI-B4608 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine VI; Eirini; Constantinople Denomination: Forty nummi Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 780-797 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.05 Weight (g): 2.78 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 691. Bt Spink & Son 1923 for £0 10s 0d. |

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Description: Obverse: bust of Eirini facing, wearing loros and cross crown with pendilia and four pinnacles, a globus cruciger in r. hand, a cross topped sceptre in l. Reverse: beardless bust of Constantine VI, wearing chlamys and crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, a cross in field at r., pellets in field at l. and r., all atop a bar above denomination mark.
Inscriptions: Reverse: X / N (Year 10). Off. A.
Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl.XIV AE7.13, BN II pl.LXIX Cp/AE/03
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