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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4547 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): 2.10 Weight (g): 4.42 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0344. Bt Basle sale, Dec 1948, lot 712. |
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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 a cross between and above them. Reverse: bearded bust of Leo III facing wearing loros and cross crown, cross potent in right hand. Inscriptions: Obverse: COhSτAhτInOSS Leon on EOS (Constantine and the new Leo). Reverse: C LEoN P A MЧL (Cæsar Leo, for many years). Off. Θ Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl. VIII AV2c.2
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4 Related People | |
| Constantine V Byzantine 718 775-09-14 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Leo IV Byzantine 750-01 780-09-08 | |
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