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ID number: BIRBI-B4609 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Eirini; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 797-802 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.00 Weight (g): 4.40 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0348. Bt L. S. Farrer February 1950. |

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Description: Obverse: bust of Eirini facing, wearing loros and cross crown with pendilia and two pinnacles, a globus cruciger in r. hand, a cross topped sceptre in l. Reverse: bust of Eirini facing, wearing loros and cross crown with pendilia and two pinnacles, a globus cruciger in r. hand, a cross topped sceptre in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: EIRInH bASILISSH (Empress Eirini). Reverse: · EIRIn[...] bASILISSH+ (Empress Irene).
Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl.XV AV1a, BN II pl.LXX Cp/AV/03
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