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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4599 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constantine VI; Eirini; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 780-797 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.00 Weight (g): 4.43 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0347. Bt Spink 14th November 1968. |
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Description: Obverse: beardless bust of Constantine VI, wearing chlamys and cross crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, beside bust of Eirini wearing loros and cross crown with four pinnacles and pendilia, holding cross-topped sceptre, a cross above them. Reverse: Leo III, Constantine V and Leo IV, seated facing wearing chlamys and cross crowns. Inscriptions: Obverse: COnSτ[...]nC ASI[…] (Emperor Constantine). Reverse: [...]InH AVΓOVτ[...] (Eirini Augusta). Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl.XIII AV2b, BN II pl.LXIX Cp/AV/01 Notes: pierced |
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| Eirini Greek 752 803-08-09 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Constantine VI Byzantine 771-01-14 797 | |
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