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ID number: BIRBI-B4874 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): 4.03 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 3643. Major Kozolabski, September 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: ...OnSτAh...' CЄ ZO (Constantine and Zoe, Emperors of the Romans). Reverse: ... ...M τInO, τЄ ZOH PA ...SIΓIS ISO MЄOH (Constantine and Zoe, Emperors of the Romans).
Bibliography: DOC III.2 pl. XXXVIII AE22.14
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