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ID number:  BIRBI-B4870
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Constantine VII; Zoe Karbonopsina; Constantinople
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  913-919
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.70
Weight (g):  5.34
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 3645. B. A. Seaby, October 1949.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Constantine facing, beardless, to l. wearing a loros and crown with pendilia and a cross, with Zoe taller to r. wearing chlamys and crown with pendilia and a cross. They hold between them a long cross. Reverse: None.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: +COhS...' CЄ ZOH b' (Constantine and Zoe, Emperors of the Romans). Reverse: +COhS τAhτIhO, CЄ ZOH bA SILIS RO MЄOh (Constantine and Zoe, Emperors of the Romans).

Bibliography:  DOC III.2 pl. XXXVIII AE22.3

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Whitting, Philip David
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Constantine VII
Byzantine
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Zoe Karbonopsina
Byzantine


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