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ID number: BIRBI-B4740 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Theophilos Denomination: Follis Place made: Unknown Culture: Byzantine Date made: 829-842 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.90 Weight (g): 6.30 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4985. bt A. H. Baldwin 21st August 1965. |

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Description: Obverse: half-length figure of Theophilos bearded facing, wearing loros and crown with tufa (4 dots), holding labarum with cross in r. hand and globus cruciger in l. Reverse: legend.
Inscriptions: Obverse: …ЄOFIV bAS… (Theophilos Emperor). Reverse: …ЄO/FILЄ VS/OV…/VTЄ SV / MIAS (Theophilos Augustus you conquer).
Bibliography: DOC III.1 AE17
Notes: Reverse double struck.
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