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ID number: BIRBI-B4594 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Leo IV; Constantine VI; Constantinople Denomination: Forty nummi Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 775-780 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.40 Weight (g): 4.77 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 936. Bt Reverend E. Gantz M.A. 1927 for 2s 6d. |

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Description: Obverse: busts of Leo IV and son Constantine facing, wearing chlamys and cross crowns, cross above and between their heads. Reverse: busts of Leo III and Constantine V facing, wearing loros and cross crowns, a cross above and between their heads, all atop a pellet-bounded bar above denomination mark.
Inscriptions: Reverse: B A (emperors) / X N (Year 10). Off. A.
Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl. XII Æ4.1, BN II pl. LXIX Cp/Æ/01
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