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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4979 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R. Maker: Basil II; Constantine VIII; Constantinople Denomination: Miliaresion Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 989-1025 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.20 Weight (g): 2.39 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 5627. ex J. R. Stewart collection, 30th January 1968, number 236, previously bought by Stewart from Spink December 1945. |
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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 four steps, shaft with pellet in U, and X at junction of arms. Reverse: inscription with -(four pellets)- above and below. Inscriptions: Obverse: Єn τOVτU nICA τ' bASILЄI C CωnSτ' (In this sign conquer, Basil and Constantine). Reverse + bASIL, / C CωhSτAh, / ΠORFVROς / ΠISτOI bAS / ΛωmAIω (Basil and Constantine, the purple-born, faithful emperors of the Romans). Bibliography: DOC III.2 AR17a
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5 Related People | |
| Stewart, James R. Australian 03 Jul 1913 06 Feb 1962 | |
| Basil II Byzantine 958 1025 | |
| Constantine VIII Byzantine 960 1028 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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