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ID number: BIRBI-B4872 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): 2.30 Weight (g): 4.64 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3642. |

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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: ...hSτAhτ' CЄ ZOH b' (Constantine and Zoe, Emperors of the Romans). Reverse: ...Coh... cAhτIh... CЄ ZOH bA SILIS RC MЄOh (Constantine and Zoe, Emperors of the Romans).
Bibliography: DOC III.2 pl. XXXVIII AE22.21
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