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ID number: BIRBI-B4719 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Theophilos; Syracuse Denomination: Semissis Place made: Sicily: Syracuse Culture: Byzantine Date made: 829-842 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.30 Weight (g): 1.78 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0356. bt Spink October 1949. |
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Description: Obverse: bust of Theophilos bearded facing, wearing chlamys and cross crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Reverse: bust of Theophilos bearded facing, wearing loros and cross crown, holding globus cruciger in r. hand.
Inscriptions: Obverse: θЄO [IΛOS (Theophilos). Reverse: θЄO FIΛOʕ (Theophilos).
Bibliography: DOC III.1 AV19.
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