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ID number: BIRBI-B4527 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Leo III; Constantine V; Constantinople Denomination: Forty nummi Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 717-741 Place collected: Turkey Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 1.85 Weight (g): 3.81 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2809; bt. Baldwin's Aug. 1966, from S. E. Turkey |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Leo facing, wearing cross crown and chlamys, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: denomination mark with bust of Constantine, holding globus cruciger in r. hand and akakia in l., on faded ornate bar with double pellet at either end above, cross in field at r.
Inscriptions: Obverse illegible. Reverse: CON CONS τ[...] (Lord Constantine…).
Bibliography: DOC III.1 AE31 BN none
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