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ID number: BIRBI-B4437 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Leontios; Constantinople Denomination: Tremissis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 695-698 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.40 Weight (g): 1.43 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0817. Bought Glendining 30th May 1959. |

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Description: Obverse: bust of Leontios facing, bearded, wearing loros and crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: cross potent.
Inscriptions: Obverse: D LEO… (Lord Leontios). Reverse: VICTORIA AVSЧ C (Imperial Victory). Mint Mark: CONOB.
Bibliography: DOC II.2 pl.XL AV4.3; MIB III Leontius II pl.41 Gold 5.
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