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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B4673
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Michael II; Theophilos; Syracuse
Denomination:  Forty nummi
Place made:  Sicily: Syracuse
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  821-829
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.30
Weight (g):  4.74
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 2751; bt. Spink June 1947.
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Description:  Obverse: busts of Michael and Theophilos facing wearing chlamys and loros respectively and cross crowns. Reverse: denomination mark with cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: …HL… (Michael and Theophilos). Off. θ.

Bibliography:  DOC III.1 pl.XXI AE21, BN II pl.LXXII Sy/AE/01 and 10

Notes:  Overstruck - traces of chlamys to left of Michael's head and cross between left leg of M and θ.

4 Related People

Michael II
Byzantine

829-10-02
Syracuse
Greek; Roman; Byzantine


Theophilos
Byzantine
c.812
842
Whitting_Phillip-T.jpg
Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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