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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4586 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Leo IV; Constantine VI; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 775-780 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.15 Weight (g): 4.44 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1129. Bt Christie's Jun 1962. |
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Description: Obverse: Leo IV, bearded, and son Constantine, beardless, seated facing wearing chlamys and cross crowns, a cross above and between their heads. Reverse: Leo III and Constantine V, both bearded, standing facing wearing loros and cross crowns, a pellet between their heads and a cross above. Inscriptions: Obverse: LEOn VS S EΓΓ[… ]n COnSτAnτInOS O nEOS (Leo, son and grandson, [and] the new Constantine). Reverse: LEOn PAP COnSτAnτInOS PAτHR (Leo the grandfather, Constantine the son). Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl. XII AV2.10, BN II pl. LXIX Cp/AV/05-6
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5 Related People | |
| Constantine V Byzantine 718 775-09-14 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Constantine VI Byzantine 771-01-14 797 | |
| Leo IV Byzantine 750-01 780-09-08 | |
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