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ID number: BIRBI-B4780 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): 2.50 Weight (g): 4.75 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4639. B.A. Seaby, 29th January 1964. |

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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 COnST AVCCST (Leo, Basil and Constantine, emperors). Reverse: + bASIL COhSTA[…]/TS LЄOn Є[…] ΘO bASIL[…] ROMЄO[…] (Basil, Constantine and Leo, by God emperors of the Romans).
Bibliography: DOC III.2 10c
Notes: Overstruck
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