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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B4654
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):  2.00
Weight (g):  2.60
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 2855; bt. A. H. Baldwin May 1949.
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Description:  Obverse: bust of Leo bearded wearing loros and cross crown. Reverse: bust of Constantine beardless facing wearing chlamys and cross crown holding globus cruciger in r. hand.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: …EO* (Leo). Reverse: K O… (Constantine). C I for Sicily.

Bibliography:  DOC III.1 pl.XIX AE17, BN II pl.LXXI Sy/AE/08

Notes:  Overstruck: N visible to left of reverse figure and flecks of lettering on obverse; clipped twice to bottom left and top right of obverse figure.

4 Related People

Leo V
Armenian

820-12-25
Syracuse
Greek; Roman; Byzantine


Constantine
Armenian


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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