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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4779 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): 2.80 Weight (g): 6.14 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1553. R.M. Cunningham, 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: None. Inscriptions: Obverse: […] bASIL S COhST A[…] (Leo, Basil and Constantine, emperors). Reverse: […] COИSTA[…]/CS LЄOИ Є[…] ΘO bASIL ROMЄOH (Basil, Constantine and Leo, by God emperors of the Romans). Bibliography: DOC III.2 10a Notes: Overstruck on Basil I DOC type 9 follis, reverse on reverse, with inscription R/OMAION still visible. |
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| Constantine Byzantine 879 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Leo VI Byzantine 866 912 | |
| Basil I Byzantine 886 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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