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ID number: BIRBI-B4627 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Michael I?; Michael II?; Constantinople Denomination: Forty nummi Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 811-821 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.20 Weight (g): 4.39 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1949. |
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Description: Obverse: bust of Michael facing bearded wearing loros and cross crown holding globus cruciger in r. hand and cross-topped sceptre in l. Reverse: denomination mark with cross above.
Inscriptions: Obverse: …LbA… (Michael Emperor). Reverse: XXX NNN ('year 30'). Off. A.
Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl.XX AE7.2 (listed as Michael II)
Notes: Overstruck (additional cross, perhaps from crown or cross-topped sceptre above and to right of cross above M on the reverse).
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