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EL Tremisis - Leo III
| Issuer | Byzantine Empire (Byzantine states) |
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| Year | 721-741 |
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| Currency | Second Solidus Nomisma (720-1092) |
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| Obverse description | Frontal bust of Emperor Leo III, facing, wearing a jewelled crown adorned with pendilia and a loros draped across the chest and shoulders. The emperor holds a cross-tipped sceptre in his right hand and is depicted in full imperial regalia with elaborate dotted ornamentation. The bust is rendered in the characteristic flat, hieratic Byzantine style. A circular Latin legend surrounds the effigy in the field. |
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| Reverse description | Frontal bust of co-emperor Constantine V, facing, wearing a jewelled crown surmounted by a cross and adorned with pendilia. The bust is draped in imperial loros with detailed dotted ornamentation typical of 8th-century Byzantine coinage. Two six-pointed stars flank the effigy in the field, one to each side. A circular Latin legend surrounds the figure, identifying the co-emperor. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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