Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-B4435 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Leontios; Syracuse Denomination: Solidus Place made: Sicily: Syracuse Culture: Byzantine Date made: 695-698 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.95 Weight (g): 4.08 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0325. Hall Sale November 1950. |

|
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, with ·:· to l. and I to r.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D LEON A ρ (backward) (Lord Leontios eternal Augustus). Reverse: VICTORIA ЧSЧ θ (Imperial Victory). Mint Mark: CONOB.
Bibliography: DOC II.2 pl.XL AV13.1; MIB III Leontius pl.41 Gold 9.
|