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ID number: BIRBI-B4545 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constantine V; Leo IV; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 751-775 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.20 Weight (g): 4.40 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1023. Bt Spink June 1961. |

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Description: Obverse: busts of Constantine V and son Leo facing, both wearing chlamys and cross crown, Constantine bearded and Leo beardless, a pellet between heads and cross between and above them. Reverse: bearded bust of Leo III facing wearing loros and cross crown, cross potent in right hand
Inscriptions: Obverse: COhS-InτIhOSS LEOn·hE·S (Constantine and the new Leo). Reverse: C LEON P A MЧL (Cæsar Leo, for many years)
Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl. VIII AV2f BN II pl. LXVII AV/10
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