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ID number: BIRBI-B5818 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Manouel I; Thessalonica Denomination: Half-Tetarteron Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1143-1180 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.85 Weight (g): 2.37 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2436, H. H. Baldwin, 13th April 1964. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in l. hand; pellet in each limb of nimbus cross. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor, bearded, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece and sagion; holds in r. hand cross-topped sceptre and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: MANVHΛ ΔЄC ΠOTH (Manouel, despot)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.21.3
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