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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B6366 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Andronikos III Palaiologos; Constantinople Denomination: Billon Tornesi Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1341-1347 Metal: Billon Diameter (cm): 1.75 Weight (g): 0.70 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 4787. A. H. F. Baldwin, 3rd September 1964. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Virgin at centre, nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, with legend border surrounding. Reverse: Three-quarter-length figure of emperor on l. and of a saint; emperor, bearded and nimbate, wears stemma, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; r. hand on breast; the saint, beardless and nimbate, wears bishop's apparel and holds cross on chest. Inscriptions: Obverse: +ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΟΝ (Of the city) Reverse: A/N/Δ (Andronikos) Γ/O/A (Saint) Bibliography: LPC 1 p.180; DOC V.885
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3 Related People | |
| Andronikos III Palaiologos Byzantine 1297 1341 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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