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ID number: BIRBI-B4724 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Theophilos; Syracuse Denomination: Follis Place made: Sicily: Syracuse Culture: Byzantine Date made: 829-842 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 1.80 Weight (g): 2.68 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 741. bt Spink 1955. |

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Description: Obverse: bust of Theophilos bearded facing, wearing loros and cross crown, holding cross potent in r. hand, pellet at end of finger. Reverse: busts of Michael and Constantine facing, wearing cross crowns, star floating above between heads, pellet between heads.
Inscriptions: Obverse: θЄO …OS bAS' (Theophilos emperor). Reverse: …IX AHL S CO… (Michael and Constantine).
Bibliography: DOC III.1 AE29.
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