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ID number:  BIRBI-B5946
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Maker:  Alexios III Angelos; Constantinople
Denomination:  Half-Tetarteron
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  1195-1203
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  1.95
Weight (g):  2.97
Axis (degrees):  180.00
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Description:  Obverse: Full-length figure of Virgin nimbate, orans, wearing tunic and maphorion, turned towards r. Manus Dei in upper r. field. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand cross-topped sceptre, and in l. hand globus cruciger.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: None Visible. Reverse: ...ΔCCΠ… (despot)

Bibliography:  DOC IV.1.6

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Constantinople
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