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ID number: BIRBI-B4606 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constantine VI; Eirini; Constantinople Denomination: Forty nummi Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 780-797 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 1.75 Weight (g): 2.07 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1944. Bt R. M. Cunningham February 1951. |

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Description: Obverse: bust of Eirini facing, wearing loros and cross crown with pendilia and four pinnacles, a globus cruciger in r. hand, a cross topped sceptre in l. Reverse: bust of Constantine VI in uncertain attire, holding globus cruciger in r. hand, a cross in field at r., all atop a bar above denomination mark.
Inscriptions: Reverse: X (10).
Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl.XIV AE7.5, BN II pl.LXIX CP/AE/03
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