Details
LOT 3946
Leo VI the Wise AE Follis. AD 886-912. Constantinople mint.
✠ LЄOꞂ bAS-ILЄVS ROᙏ', facing bust of Leo VI with short beard, wearing chlamys and cross-tipped crown, holding akakia / ✠ LЄOꞂ ЄꞂ ΘЄΟ bASILЄVS ROᙏЄOꞂ in four lines. DOC 8; SB 1729. Very Fine.(7.54gr, 26mm, 6h.).
Provenance
Ex Parthenon Gallery and Coincraft, London, UK, 1990s-2000s.
Property of a North London, UK, private collector.
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