- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1951.31.4.1094
- People
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Constantine V, Byzantine (r. 720-775)
- Title
- Coin of Constantine V
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 751-775 CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Syracuse (Sicily)
- Period
- Byzantine period, Early
- Culture
- Byzantine
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/74951
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Gold
- Metal
- AV
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 3.96 g
- Denomination
- solidus
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Obverse Inscription: COGamma-Lambda Lambda [ ]TE
- Reverse Inscription: ]LambdaMGamma
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- DOC 3.1, 15c.1 (p. 309)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore
- Accession Year
- 1951
- Object Number
- 1951.31.4.1094
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Obv.: Busts of Constantine, bearded, on l., and Leo IV, mature, on r., facing, each wearing chlamys and crown with cross on circlet. Between heads, cross.
Rev.: Bust of Leo III, bearded, facing, wearing loros and crown with cross on circlet, holding in r. hand, outwards, cross potent on base.
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