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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4770 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Basil I; Constantine; Leo VI; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 870-879 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.70 Weight (g): 5.69 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1551. R.M. Cunningham, February 1951. |
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Description: Obverse: Basil bearded standing facing to centre, wearing loros and crown with cross, smaller beardless figures of Leo (l.) and Constantine (r.) either side, both wearing chlamys and crown with cross. Reverse: Star below. Inscriptions: Obverse: + LЄOn bASIL S COnST AV (Leo, Basil and Constantine, emperors). Reverse: + bASIL COnSTAn/TS LЄOn Єn ΘO bASILS ROMЄOn (Basil, Constantine and Leo, by God emperors of the Romans). Bibliography: DOC III.2 10b
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| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Basil I Byzantine 886 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Constantine Byzantine 879 | |
| Leo VI Byzantine 866 912 | |
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