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ID number: BIRBI-B4700 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Theophilos; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 829-842 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.90 Weight (g): 6.85 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5717. bt A. H. Baldwin 28th March 1968, from W. V. R. Baldwin's coins. |

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Description: Obverse: half-length figure of Theophilos bearded facing, wearing loros and crown with tufa (6 dots), holding labarum with cross and 2 pendants in r. hand and globus cruciger in l. Reverse: legend.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ...OFIL' bASILЄ' (Theophilos emperor). +θЄO/...LЄ AVʕ/OVSτЄ SV / nICAS (Theophilos Augustus you conquer).
Bibliography: DOC III.1 AE15a, BN II Cp/AE/10.
Notes: Countermarked on obverse.
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