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ID number: BIRBI-B5841 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Andronikos I; Thessalonica Denomination: Tetarteron Noummion Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1183-1185 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.1 Weight (g): 3.96 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3569, Spink, February 1951. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Virgin nimbate orans, wearing tunic and maphorion; beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, skaramangion or divitision and sagion; holds in r. hand labarum-headed sceptre and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: ANΔPON ΔЄCΠ…HC (Andronikos, despot)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.6.Var.
Notes: This formulation of the legend does not appear in DOC.
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