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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4978 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Basil II; Constantine VIII; Constantinople Denomination: Miliaresion Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 989-1025 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.10 Weight (g): 1.87 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 4171. ex Dorothy Wood collection, 29th January 1968. |
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Description: Obverse: bust of Basil l. and Constantine r. wearing loros and chlamys, respectively, and cross crowns with pendilia. In centre, cross crosslet on globus on three steps, shaft with pellet in U, and X at junction of arms. Reverse: inscription with - + - above. Inscriptions: Obverse: ЄV τOVτω hICA τ' LASILЄI C CωnSτ' (In this sign conquer, Basil and Constantine). Reverse + bASIL' / C CωhSτAh' / ΠORFVROC / ΠISτOI bAS' / RωmAIω' (Basil and Constantine, the purple-born, faithful emperors of the Romans). Bibliography: DOC III.2 AR17g
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4 Related People | |
| Basil II Byzantine 958 1025 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantine VIII Byzantine 960 1028 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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