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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4792 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Basil I; Constantine; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 868-870 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 3.00 Weight (g): 6.63 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1444. R.M. Cunningham, February 1951. |
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Description: Obverse: Basil and Constantine standing facing, Basil bearded l. and Constantine smaller and beardless on r. both wearing chlamys and crown with cross, with labarum held between with Basil's hand placed on labarum shaft above Constantine's. Reverse: None. Inscriptions: Obverse: + bASI[…]ST AЧGG (Basil and Constantine, emperors). Reverse: + bASIL/SCOHSTAИ/ZIИOS Єh SO bASILЄIS R/OMAIO[…] (Basil and Constantine, by God emperors of the Romans). Bibliography: DOC III.2 8a Notes: Overstruck reverse on obverse on follis (possibly Theophilos, according to Whitting). |
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| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Basil I Byzantine 886 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Constantine Byzantine 879 | |
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