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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4653 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): 2.10 Weight (g): 2.66 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2858; bt. A. H. Baldwin May 1949. |
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Description: Obverse: bust of Leo bearded wearing loros and cross crown holding cross potent in r. hand. Reverse: bust of Constantine beardless facing wearing chlamys and cross crown holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Inscriptions: Obverse: …EO* (Leo). Reverse: K …CT (Constantine). C I for Sicily. Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl.XIX AE17.2, BN II pl.LXXI Sy/AE/08 Notes: Overstruck: two faint cross crowns side by side in left of field on reverse and flecks (X from NNN XXX?) to right of O* on obverse; clipped twice at top and bottom of obverse figure. |
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4 Related People | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Syracuse Greek; Roman; Byzantine | |
| Constantine Armenian | |
| Leo V Armenian 820-12-25 | |
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