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ID number: BIRBI-B6121 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Theodore Komnenos Doukas; Thessalonica Denomination: Tetarteron Noummion Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1227-1230 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 3.06 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3098. A. H. Baldwin, December 1956. |

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Description: Obverse: None. Reverse: Half-length figure of emperor on l. and of St. Demetrios, beardless and nimbate; between them a patriarchal cross-crosslet, on long shaft decorated with crescent and pellet, the base of the shaft ending in three steps; emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds anexikakia in l. hand; saint wears tunic, breastplate and sagion; holds in r. hand sword and in l. hand shield.
Inscriptions: Obverse: +ΘЄ / OΔWPOC / ΔЄCΠOT / HCOΔOV / KAC (Theodore Doukas, despot) Reverse: ΘЄOΔOPOCΔЄCΠOT (Theodore, despot) ...CΔIMITPHOC (Saint Demetrios)
Bibliography: DOC IV.2.12.1
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