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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4775 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Basil I; Constantine; Leo VI; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 870-879 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.70 Weight (g): 6.96 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1552. Duke of Argyll, February 1951. |
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Description: Obverse: Basil bearded standing facing to centre, wearing loros and crown with cross, smaller beardless figures of Leo (l.) and Constantine (r.) either side, both wearing chlamys and crown with cross. Reverse: Star below. Inscriptions: Obverse: + LЄOn bASIL S COnS[…] (Leo, Basil and Constantine, emperors). Reverse: […]STAn/TS LЄOn Єn ΘO bASILS ROMЄOn (Basil, Constantine and Leo, by God emperors of the Romans). Bibliography: DOC III.2 10c Notes: Overstruck on apparently unpublished type with one figure in chlamys with cross crown on obverse, and two figures one in chlamys, the other in chlamys with loros scarf on reverse, remnants of legend bASI IL…ASILЄ', remnants on legend on reverse +I…hCROSAʕʕST |
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| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Basil I Byzantine 886 | |
| Constantine Byzantine 879 | |
| Leo VI Byzantine 866 912 | |
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