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ID number: BIRBI-B4430 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Leontios; Constantinople Denomination: Tremissis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 695-698 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.00 Weight (g): 1.47 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 2162. Bought Spink 1942. |

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Description: Obverse: bust of Leontios facing, bearded, wearing loros, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: cross potent.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D L… …AV (Lord Leontios eternal Augustus). Reverse: …ICTORIA AVSЧ (Imperial Victory).
Bibliography: DOC II.2 pl.XL AV4.3; MIB III Leontius II pl.41 Gold 5.
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