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ID number: BIRBI-B4546 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): 1.90 Weight (g): 4.43 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1102. Bt A. H. Baldwin April 1962, from a war-time sale. |

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Description: Obverse: busts of Constantine V and son Leo facing, both wearing chlamys and cross crown, Constantine bearded, Leo beardless, a pellet between their 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: CohSτAhτIhoSS LEOh Oh EOS (Constantine and the new Leo). Reverse: b LEON P A MЧ (Lord Leo, for many years). Off. Θ
Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl. VIII AV2c.4 BN II pl. LXVII AV/06
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