BZ110710. Bronze follis, DOC III-1 15a; Morrisson BnF 32/Cp/AE/04 ff.; Wroth BMC 20-26; Tolstoi 25; Ratto 1823; Sommer 31.5; SBCV 1667, VF, centered, green patina, porosity, Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) mint, weight 6.671g, maximum diameter 25.7mm, die axis 180
o, 830 - 842 A.D.; obverse ΘEOFIL bASIL, three-quarter length figure facing, wearing loros and tufa crown decorated with pellets, labarum in right with cross and two dangling streamers, globus cruciger in left hand, loros end draped over the emperors left arm; reverse ΘEO/FILE AVG/OVSTES V / nICAS (Emperor Theofilos, may you conquer), inscription in four lines;
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