Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-B4637 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Leo V; Constantinople Denomination: Forty nummi Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 813 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.35 Weight (g): 5.90 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3675; bt. Glendining 3rd May 1951. |
|
Description: Obverse: bust of Leo facing wearing chlamys and cross crown holding cross potent in r. hand and akakia in l. Reverse: denomination mark with cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: LE On bASI… (Leo Emperor). Reverse: XXX NN… ('year 30'). Off. A.
Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl.XVIII AE 6.2, BN II pl.LXXI Cp/AE/01
|