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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B4697
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.; Karageorgiou, N. C.
Maker:  Theophilos; Constantinople
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  829-842
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.80
Weight (g):  7.76
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 4773. Karageorgiou 29th August 1964.
BIRBI-B4697.jpg

Description:  Obverse: half-length figure of Theophilos bearded facing, wearing loros and crown with tufa (4 dots), holding labarum with 2 pendants in r. hand and globus cruciger in l. Reverse: legend.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: θЄO... bASIL' (Theophilos emperor). +θЄO/FILЄ AVʕ/OVSτЄ SV / nICAS (Theophilos Augustus you conquer).

Bibliography:  DOC III.1 AE15a.

4 Related People

Theophilos
Byzantine
c.812
842
Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Karageorgiou, N. C.



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