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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4744 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Michael III; Theodora; Thekla; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 842-843 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.15 Weight (g): 4.34 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0359. 'From Basle sale' December 1948, item 715, exchanged August 1963 for one from Istanbul. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Theodora facing wearing jewelled cross crown with concentric pinacles and pendilia, and loros; holding patriarchal globus cruciger in r. hand and cross-topped sceptre in l. Reverse: Busts of Michael r. and Thekla l. facing; Michael wearing cross crown and chlamys, and holding globus cruciger in r. hand; Thekla wearing cross crown with three jewelled pinacles and pendilia, and loros, and holding patriarchal cross in r. hand. Inscriptions: Obverse: + θЄO∂O RA ∂ЄSPVh' (Despot Theodora). Reverse: ∙ mIXAHL S θ ЄCLA (Michael and Thekla). Bibliography: DOC III.1 AV1d, BN II Cp/AV/02
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5 Related People | |
| Michael III Byzantine 840 867 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Theodora Byzantine | |
| Thekla Byzantine | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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