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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4651 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Leo V; Constantine; Syracuse Denomination: Follis Place made: Sicily: Syracuse Culture: Byzantine Date made: 813-820 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 1.95 Weight (g): 3.66 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2856; bt. A. H. Baldwin May 1949. |
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Description: Obverse: bust of Leo bearded wearing loros, traces of globus cruciger in left of field. Reverse: bust of Constantine beardless facing wearing chlamys and cross crown, cross of globus cruciger in l. of field. Inscriptions: Obverse: …O* (Leo). Reverse: K ONCT (Constantine). C I for Sicily. Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl.XIX AE17.5, BN II pl.LXXI Sy/AE/08 Notes: Possible overstiking traces to right of Leo's bust below *, possibly just a die flaw; clipped twice to bottom right and top left of obverse bust. |
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4 Related People | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Syracuse Greek; Roman; Byzantine | |
| Leo V Armenian 820-12-25 | |
| Constantine Armenian | |
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