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Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-B5977 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R. Maker: Latin Empire; Constantinople Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Frankish Date made: 1204-1261 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.05 Weight (g): 3.30 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 6132. ex. James R. Stewart Collection, 30th January 1968. |

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Description: Obverse: Three-quarter-length figure of Virgin nimbate, orans, wearing tunic and maphorion. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l., and of St. George, beardless and nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft; Emperor wears stemma, divitision and chlamys; Saint wears short military tunic, breastplate and sagion; holds sword in l. hand, point resting on ground.
Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: I / - / II / - (?)
Bibliography: DOC IV.2.14.3
Notes: Broken, probably pierced then broken.
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