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ID number: BIRBI-B4704 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): 2.80 Weight (g): 7.36 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4614. bt Christie 10th December 1963. Previously bt Lincoln 2nd October 1905. |

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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. Reverse: legend.
Inscriptions: Obverse: θЄOFIL' bASIL' (Theophilos emperor). +θЄO/FILЄ AVʕ/OVSτЄ SV / nICAS (Theophilos Augustus you conquer).
Bibliography: DOC III.1 AE15a.
Notes: Double-struck on reverse.
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