Constantine VI and Irene (AD 780-797), with Leo III, Constantine V and Leo IV. AE follis or 40 nummi (19mm, 2.67 gm, 6h). NGC XF 2/5 - 3/5. Constantinople, 1st officina. Facing busts of Constantine VI (on left), wearing crown and chlamys, globus cruciger in right hand, and Irene (on right), wearing crown with four pinnacles and pendilia, and loros, cruciform scepter in left hand; cross above, pellet between / Facing busts of Constantine V, Leo IV and Leo III, all wearing crown and chlamys, set upon horizontal bar; pellet in left and right fields, M (mark of value) above A between X-N across fields all in exergue. Sear 1596.

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