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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4675 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): 2.10 Weight (g): 5.17 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3669. |
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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: MIXA HL …EOF (Michael and Theophilos). Off. θ. Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl.XXI AE21, BN II pl.LXXII Sy/AE/01 and 10 Notes: Overstruck: no traces on obverse, but there is a cross between the cross and right peak of the M and an E at an angle which combined with the corners but no on coin clipping suggests a Leo V Syracusan DOC class 1 or 2. |
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4 Related People | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Syracuse Greek; Roman; Byzantine | |
| Theophilos Byzantine c.812 842 | |
| Michael II Byzantine 829-10-02 | |
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