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ID number:  BIRBI-B5920
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Isaac II; Thessalonica
Denomination:  Tetarteron Noummion
Place made:  Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  1185-1195
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  1.9
Weight (g):  2.78
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 3575.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of archangel Michael, beardless and nimbate, wearing divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand jeweled sceptre or spear, and in l. hand globus cruciger. Reverse: Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand cross-topped sceptre, and in l. hand anexikakia.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: …X …M (Archangel Michael) Reverse: ICA / AKI / OC ΔЄ / CΠO / THC (Isaac, despot)

Bibliography:  DOC IV.1.5c.Var.

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