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ID number: BIRBI-B5814 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. C. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Manouel I; Uncertain mint Denomination: Half-Tetarteron Place made: Europe: Greece Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1143-1180 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.7 Weight (g): 2.27 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 923, ex. Rev. E. Gantz, 1927. |
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Description: Obverse: None. Reverse: Bust of emperor, beardless, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: M Λ Δ Π Κ [in cruciform monogram] (Manouel, despot, of the Komnenoi) Reverse: None.
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.22.1
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