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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4880 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Romanos I Lekapenos; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 931-944 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.70 Weight (g): 7.77 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3632. Andronikos, Istanbul, December 1950. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Romanos facing, bearded, wearing chlamys and crown with cross, holding globus cruciger in l. hand and labarum in r. hand. Reverse: None. Inscriptions: Obverse: +RWMAh' bAS ILЄV RWM (Romanos Emperor of the Romanos). Reverse: +RWMA h'Єh ΘЄW bA SIL ЄVS RW MAIWh (Romanos by God Emperor of the Romans). Bibliography: DOC III.2 pl. XXXIX AE25b.12 Notes: Overstruck on follis of Constantine VII (DOC III.2, AE23), obverse on obverse. |
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| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Romanos I Lekapenos Armenian 948 | |
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