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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1951.31.4.1219
People
Basil I, Byzantine (r. 867 - 868)
Title
Solidus of Basil I
Classification
Coins
Work Type
coin
Date
868 or 882 (?) CE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Byzantium (Thrace)
Period
Byzantine period, Middle
Culture
Byzantine
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/168873

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gold
Metal
AV
Technique
Struck
Dimensions
4.44 g
Die Axis
6
Denomination
solidus
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Obverse Inscription: +bASILIOS AYGYST'b'
  • Reverse Inscription: COnSTAnT' SEVdeltaOCIA*

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
DOC 3.2, 3.1 (p. 489)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore
Accession Year
1951
Object Number
1951.31.4.1219
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Obverse: Bust facing, bearded, wearing loros and crown with cross. In r. hand, globus surmounted by patriarchal cross; in l., akakia.

Reverse: Two busts facing, Constantine on l., beardless, wearing chlamys and crown with cross, holding in r. hand gl. cr.; Eudocia on r., wearing loros and crown with cross and two pinnacles, holding in l. hand cross scepter. Above, cross.

Publication History

  • Alfred R. Bellinger, ed., Catalogue of Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection (Washington, D.C, 1992), vol. 3, part 2, 489, cat 3.1
  • Ioli Kalavrezou, Byzantine Women and Their World, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2003), p. 98/figs. 38a, 38b

Exhibition History

  • Byzantine Women and Their World, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/25/2002 - 04/28/2003

Verification Level

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