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ID number:  BIRBI-B4503
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Theodosios III; Constantinople
Denomination:  Half follis
Place made:  Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  715-717
Metal:  Base metal
Diameter (cm):  2.10
Weight (g):  2.35
Axis (degrees):  315.00
Provenance:  Whitting Collection, 1905. Spink September 1948.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Theodosios facing, wearing loros, holding patriarchal globus cruciger r. hand and akakia in l., cross in r. of field. Reverse: K.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: …Ч A (Theodosios, many years). Reverse: ANNO … (Year). Officina: A (1).

Bibliography:  MIB III, 14.

Notes:  Overstruck on Justinian II half follis type MIB III, 45.

3 Related People

Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


Theodosios III
Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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