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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4778 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): 2.90 Weight (g): 7.01 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1554. 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: None. Inscriptions: Obverse: LЄ[…] (Leo, Basil and Constantine, emperors). Reverse: + bASIL COИSTAИ/TIS LЄOn ЄI ΘO bASIL[…] (Basil, Constantine and Leo, by God emperors of the Romans). Bibliography: DOC III.2 10 Notes: Overstruck on follis of Theophilos DOC type 15, obverse on reverse and reverse on obverse |
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| Leo VI Byzantine 866 912 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantine Byzantine 879 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Basil I Byzantine 886 | |
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