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ID number:  BIRBI-B4944
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Nikephoros II; Constantinople
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  963-969
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  3.00
Weight (g):  10.52
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1966. R.M. Cunningham, February 1951.
BIRBI-B4944.jpg

Description:  Obverse: Bust of Nikephoros bearded facing, wearing loros and crown topped with cross, holding labarum in r. hand and globus cruciger in l. hand. Reverse: None.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: + hICIFR b ASIL[…] (Nikephoros, emperor of the Romans). Reverse: + nICHF Єh ΘЄѠ bA/SILЄVS RѠ/MAIѠn (Nikephoros, by God emperor of the Romans).

Bibliography:  DOC III.2 8

3 Related People

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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Nikephoros II
Byzantine

969
Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


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