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ID number: BIRBI-MH0138 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Mardin Hoard Maker: Constantine X; Eudokia Makrembolitissa; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine; Turkman Date made: 1059-1067 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.8 Weight (g): 8.09 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 8180, January 1976. |

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Description: Obverse: Christ standing on square souppedion (Type IVb) facing, bearded, with cross nimbus having pellet in each arm, wearing tunic and himation; holding book. Reverse: To l. Eudokia, standing, facing, wearing modified loros with kite-shaped lower panel
Inscriptions: Obverse: + ЄMM…OVHΛ (Emmanuel) XC (Christ) Reverse: None visible.
Bibliography: DOC III.2.8.19
Notes: Countermark 25? (sim, lam, alif) on obverse at 315 degrees; Lowick, Bendall and Whitting 'The Mardin Hoard' p.45
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