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ID number:  BIRBI-B4281
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Constantine IV; Constantinople
Denomination:  Miliaresion
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  674-681
Metal:  Silver
Diameter (cm):  1.95
Weight (g):  3.97
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 2428. A.H. Baldwin, 27th March 1954.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Constantine IV facing 3/4 r., bearded, wearing cuirass, and helmet with diadem and plume, holding spear in r. hand behind head, and shield decorated with horseman on l. arm. Reverse: Cross potent above a globe on three steps, between two palm branches.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: … N C … (Our lord Constantine). Reverse: None.

Bibliography:  MIB III 61

3 Related People

Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


Constantine IV
Byzantine
652
685
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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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