- Co 597 (Late Roman bronze coin of Leo I from Constantinople) [permalink] [show fewer links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
- 474
- Not before (date)
- 457
- Logical part of
- Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
- Coin
- Comparanda
- RICX Leo I 674, p. 293, pl. 26
- Axis (1-12)
- 6
- Has denomination
- AE4
- Numismatic Authority
- Leo I (eastern emperor, 457-474)
- Numismatic Mint
- Constantinople
- Obverse Description
- Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust of emperor to right (“barbarous“ style)
- Obverse Inscription
- [D N LEO P F] AVG
- Reverse Description
- Lion crouching to left and turning back to right; within wreath broken by mintmark
- Reverse Inscription
- In exergue, [C]ON
- Diameter
- 10.0
- Weight (kg)
- 0.49
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Late Roman (Historical Period)
- Material
- Bronze (Material)
- Has visual motif (depicts)
- Lion (Visual Motif)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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