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ID number: BIRBI-B4722 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Theophilos; Syracuse Denomination: Tremissis Place made: Sicily: Syracuse Culture: Byzantine Date made: 829-842 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.20 Weight (g): 1.29 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 2812. bt Spink 1952. |

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Description: Obverse: bust of Theophilos bearded facing, wearing chlamys and cross crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: bust of Theophilos bearded facing, wearing loros and cross crown, holding cross potent in r. hand.
Inscriptions: Obverse: *θЄO FILOS bA (Theophilos Emperor). Reverse: θЄO [ILOS bA (Theophilos Emperor).
Bibliography: DOC III.1 AV20.
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