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ID number: BIRBI-B4492 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Anastasios II; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 713-715 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.05 Weight (g): 4.44 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1446. A. H. Baldwin April 1965, ‘from Istanbul’. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Anastasios bearded, facing, wearing chlamys and cross crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand and akakia in l.. Reverse: Cross potent on three steps.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IN APTЄMIЧS A NASTASIЧS MЧL (Our lord Artemios Anastasios, many years). Reverse: VICTORIA …SЧ (Imperial victory). Control mark: Δθ (4, 9). Mint mark: CONOB.
Bibliography: MIB III, 3.
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