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ID number: BIRBI-B6200 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R. Maker: Andronikos II Palaiologos; Constantinople Denomination: Trachea Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1282-1328 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.4 Weight (g): 2.04 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5984. ex. James R. Stewart Collection, 30th January 1968. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of cherub, surrounded by four stars and crosses. Reverse: Emperor being presented to Christ by Archangel Michael; emperor wears stemma, collar-piece, paneled loros of simplified type and sagion; above the Archangel Michael, beardless and nimbate; Christ, bearded and nimbate, wears tunic and kolobion, and crowns the emperor; holds scroll in l. hand.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None. Reverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ)
Bibliography: LPC 7
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