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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-MH0154 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Mardin Hoard Maker: Anonymous; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine; Turkman Date made: 1071-1078 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.75 Weight (g): 6.49 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 8059, January 1976. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ, facing, with cross nimbus, wearing tunic and himation, r. hand raised in blessing, l. hand holds book with ornamentation (::). Reverse: Bust facing, bearded, wearing modified loros with collar-piece and crown with cross and pendilia, holding labarum in r. hand, globus cruciger in l. hand. Inscriptions: Obverse: None visible. Reverse: …RACIL (emperor) Bibliography: DOC III.2.14b.6 Notes: Countermark 1 (atabeg), countermark 9 (shams) and countermark 12 ('adl, 'izz) on obverse at 270 degrees; Lowick, Bendall and Whitting 'The Mardin Hoard' p.32, 36, 37-8; Overstruck on Romanos IV Diogenes follis, in turn overstruck on Constantine X and Eudokia follis |
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3 Related People | |
| Mardin Hoard | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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