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ID number:  BIRBI-B6204
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Andronikos II Palaiologos; Constantinople
Denomination:  Trachea
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  1282-1328
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.3
Weight (g):  1.41
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 4895.
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Description:  Obverse: Seraph, with two upper wings and four lower wings. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor, standing and facing, wearing stemma, collar-piece and loros; holds in r. hand cross-topped sceptre and in l. hand akakia.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: None. Reverse: None Visible.

Bibliography:  DOC V.588-589

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Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Andronikos II Palaiologos
Byzantine
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1332
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