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ID number:  BIRBI-B4878
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Constantine VII; Constantinople
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  919-931
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.40
Weight (g):  6.49
Axis (degrees):  0.00
Provenance:  Haines 870. Ex Edward Shepherd Collection, 1924.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Constantine facing, beardless, wearing loros and crown with cross, holding globus cruciger in l. hand and labarum in r. hand. Reverse: None.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: +COhSτAhτ... (Constantine Emperor of the Romans). Reverse: +COhS τAhτIh Єh ϴO bAS IL ROM (Constantine, by God Emperor of the Romans).

Bibliography:  DOC III.2 pl. XXXVIII AE23.2

Notes:  Gilded.

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Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


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Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
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