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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4423 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Leontios; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 695-698 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.90 Weight (g): 4.45 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1153. Bought A. H. Baldwin 28th November 1962. |
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Description: Obverse: bust of Leontios facing, bearded, wearing loros and crossed crown, holding globus cruciger in l. hand and mappa in r. hand. Reverse: cross potent on steps. Inscriptions: Obverse: D LEO… (Lord Leontios eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORIA AVSЧ A (Imperial Victory). Mint Mark: CONO… Bibliography: DOC II.2 pl.XL AV1a.3; MIB III Leontius II pl.41 Gold 1. Notes: Silvery deposits on reverse. |
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| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Leontios Byzantine 706 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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