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ID number: BIRBI-B4649 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Leo V; Constantine; Syracuse Denomination: Follis Place made: Sicily: Syracuse Culture: Byzantine Date made: 813-820 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 1.90 Weight (g): 3.16 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2853; A. H. Baldwin November 1948. |
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Description: Obverse: busts of Leo bearded and Constantine facing wearing chlamys and cross crown cross floating above between heads. Reverse: legend.
Inscriptions: Reverse: Λ • K (Leo and Constantine)
Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl.XIX AE19a, BN II pl.LXXI Sy/AE/01
Notes: 'Traces of overstriking' according to Whitting; possible very faint chlamys lines between heads on obverse and probable remnants of cross (from crown or sceptre) to top left of Λ on reverse.
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