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ID number: BIRBI-B4901 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constantine VII; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 945-959 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.90 Weight (g): 6.48 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1081. A. H. Baldwin, November 1952. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Constantine facing, bearded, wearing loros and crown with cross, holding globus cruciger in l. hand and akakia in r. hand. Reverse: None.
Inscriptions: Obverse: +Coh...AS... (Constantine Emperor of the Romans). Reverse: +COhST Єh ϴЄO b...SIL ЄVS ... (Constantine, by God Emperor of the Romans).
Bibliography: DOC III.2 pl. XXXIX AE26.1
Notes: Overstruck on follis of Romanos I (DOC III.2 AE25), obverse on obverse, inscription visible reading: [+RW…], and reverse on reverse.
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