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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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