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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4977 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Basil II; Constantine VIII; Constantinople Denomination: Miliaresion Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 989-1025 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.00 Weight (g): 1.85 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 0245. |
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Description: Obverse: bust of Basil l. and Constantine r. wearing loros and chlamys, respectively, and cross crowns with pendilia. In centre, cross crosslet on globus on four steps, shaft with pellet in U, and X at junction of arms. Reverse: inscription with -(four pellets)- above and -(five pellets)- below. Inscriptions: Obverse: ЄL TOVτω ΓIЄΛ Γ' ASILωI C CωTIT (In this sign conquer, Basil and Constantine). Reverse + bASIΓ' / C CωΓSTAΓ / ΠORKVROΓ / ΠISτOI bS / RωmAIω (Basil and Constantine, the purple-born, faithful emperors of the Romans). Bibliography: c.f. DOC III.2 AR17 blundering of inscription apparently unique. Notes: Counterfeit? Very poor inscription - possibly an illiterate person copying a real model. Also note difference in above and below rev. inscription ornamentation. |
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4 Related People | |
| Basil II Byzantine 958 1025 | |
| Constantine VIII Byzantine 960 1028 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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