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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4771 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): 2.80 Weight (g): 7.78 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1550. B.A. Seaby, May 1950. |
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Description: Obverse: Basil bearded standing facing to centre, wearing loros and crown with cross, l. hand raised, 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 AVGG (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 11
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| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Basil I Byzantine 886 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Leo VI Byzantine 866 912 | |
| Constantine Byzantine 879 | |
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