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ID number:  BIRBI-MH0011
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.; Mardin Hoard
Maker:  Romanos I Lekapenos; Constantinople
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  931-944
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.65
Weight (g):  7.11
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 8093, January 1976.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Romanos I facing, bearded, wearing chlamys with tablion and heavy crown with cross. In r. hand labarum sceptre. In l. hand globus cruciger. Reverse: None.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: +RωMAh' bAS… (Romanos Emperor of the Romans). + Rω.. / Єh Θ… / SILЄVS Rω / MAIωh (Romanos, through God, Emperor of the Romans)

Bibliography:  DOC III.2.25a.3

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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


Mardin Hoard



Romanos I Lekapenos
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