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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4980 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: 977-989 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.10 Weight (g): 2.11 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 0244. Bought L. S. Forrer May 1949. |
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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 - * - above and below. Inscriptions: Obverse: Єn τOVτω nICA τ' bASILЄI C CωnSτ' (In this sign conquer, Basil and Constantine). Reverse + bASIL, / C CωhSτAh / ΠORFVROC / ΠISτOI bA… / RωmAIω (Basil and Constantine, the purple-born, faithful emperors of the Romans). Bibliography: DOC III.2 AR17d
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4 Related People | |
| Constantine VIII Byzantine 960 1028 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Basil II Byzantine 958 1025 | |
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