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ID number: BIRBI-B5917 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Isaac II; Constantinople Denomination: Tetarteron Noummion Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1185-1195 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.1 Weight (g): 3.31 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3572. Spink, February 1951. |

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Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of Virgin nimbate, orans, standing on dais, wearing tunic and maphorion; beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision and chlamys; holds in r. hand cross-topped sceptre, and in l. hand anexikakia; Manus Dei in upper r. field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: ICA / AKI / O / C ΔЄC / ΠΟ / TH / C (Isaac, despot)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.4a.2
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