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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-MH0159
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:  c.1085-c.1092
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.6
Weight (g):  2.74
Provenance:  Whitting 8064, January 1976.
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Description:  Obverse: Border of large pellets. Reverse: Border of large pellets, half-length figure (?)

Inscriptions:  Obverse: None visible. Reverse: None visible.

Bibliography:  DOC III.2.K.26

Notes:  Countermark 1 (atabeg) over countermark 9 (shams), and countermark 12 ('adl, 'izz) and countermark 13 ('izz) on reverse at centre, and on obverse at 180 respectively; Lowick, Bendall and Whitting 'The Mardin Hoard' p.32, 36-9

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Mardin Hoard



Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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