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ID number:  BIRBI-B4709
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Theophilos; Constantinople
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  829-842
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.25
Weight (g):  3.85
Axis (degrees):  225.00
Provenance:  Whitting 4987. bt A. H. Baldwin 6th September 1965.
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Description:  Obverse: half-length figure of Theophilos bearded facing, wearing loros and crown with tufa (3 dots), holding labarum with 4 dots and 2 pendants in r. hand. Reverse: legend.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: θЄOFIL' bASIL' (Theophilos emperor). +θЄU/FILЄ AVʕ/OVSτЄ SU / nICAS (Theophilos Augustus you conquer).

Bibliography:  DOC III.1 AE15c.

3 Related People

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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


Theophilos
Byzantine
c.812
842
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