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BYZANTINE; Amorian Dynasty; Theophilos CE 829-842


 

AE Follis; 28 mm, 6.69 g, 6h. minted after CE 835 after a shortlived victory over the Abbasids.

SB 1667

O: three-quarter length figure facing wearing loros and crown surmounted by tufa, holding a labarum in his right hand and a globus cruciger in his left.  ϴϵοfIL’ bASIL’.

R: inscription in four lines   

+ϴϵο

FILϵ AVG

OVStϵsv

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