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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.
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