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ID number: BIRBI-B4755 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Michael III; Syracuse Denomination: Follis Place made: Sicily: Syracuse Culture: Byzantine Date made: 842-867 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.30 Weight (g): 3.47 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1561. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Michael bearded facing, wearing loros and cross crown, holding cross potent in r. hand. Reverse: M with cross above and θ beneath.
Inscriptions: Obverse: mI… (Michael). Reverse: none.
Bibliography: DOC III.1 AE12, BN II Sy/AE/01
Notes: Overstruck on Theophilos Syracuse type with Michael II and Constantine, obverse on reverse.
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