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ID number: BIRBI-B4655 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): 1.80 Weight (g): 3.04 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2835. |

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Description: Obverse: bust of Leo bearded wearing loros and cross crown holding cross potent or globus cricuger (only cruciform part visible) in r. hand. Reverse: bust of Constantine beardless facing wearing chlamys and cross crown holding globus cruciger in r. hand.
Inscriptions: Obverse: Λ EON (Leo). Reverse: K ON… (Constantine).
Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl.XIX AE16.2
Notes: Clipped very roughly twice to bottom right and top left of obverse figure.
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