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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4652 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Leo V; Constantine; Syracuse Denomination: Follis Place made: Sicily: Syracuse Culture: Byzantine Date made: 813-820 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.10 Weight (g): 2.67 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 734; bt. A. H. Baldwin 1948. |
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Description: Obverse: bust of Leo bearded wearing loros and cross crown holding cross potent in r. hand. Reverse: bust of Constantine beardless facing wearing chlamys and cross crown holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Inscriptions: Obverse: Λ EO* (Leo). Reverse: K ONCT (Constantine). C I for Sicily. Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl.XIX AE17.3, BN II pl.LXXI Sy/AE/08 Notes: Overstruck, E before K on reverse, which from size and position would indicate a Constantinopolitan original (potentially at least); very roughly clipped twice to bottom right and top left of obverse bust. |
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4 Related People | |
| Leo V Armenian 820-12-25 | |
| Haines, Geoffrey Colton British 1899 1981-09-14 | |
| Constantine Armenian | |
| Syracuse Greek; Roman; Byzantine | |
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