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ID:     74000853
     [UNVERIFIED]
Type:     Byzantine
Region:     BYZANTINE EMPIRE
Issuer:     Theophilus
Date Ruled:     AD 829-842
Metal:     Gold
Denomination:     Solidus
Struck / Cast:     struck
Date Struck:     AD 829-830/1
Weight:     4.40 g
Die Axis:     6 h
Obverse Legend:     *QEOFI LOS bASILE’
Obverse Description:     Crowned facing bust, wearing loros, holding globus cruciger in right hand, cruciform scepter in left
Reverse Legend:     CVRIE bOHQH TO SO dOVLO*E
Reverse Description:     Patriarchal cross on three steps
Mint:     Constantinople
Primary Reference:     DOC III 1a
Reference2:     SB 1655
Photograph Credit:     Classical Numismatic Group
Source:     http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=97266
Grade:     EF, die shift and traces of die rust on obverse.
Notes:     Sale: Triton X, Lot: 853 From the Mark Poncin Collection. Ex New York Sale IX (13 January 2005), lot 222.