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ID number:  BIRBI-MH0119
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.; Mardin Hoard
Maker:  Constantine X; Eudokia Makrembolitissa; Constantinople
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine; Turkman
Date made:  1059-1067
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.80
Weight (g):  7.40
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 8074, January 1976.
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Description:  Obverse: Christ standing on square souppedion (Type IVb) facing, bearded, with cross nimbus having pellet in each arm, wearing tunic and himation; holding book. Reverse: To l. Eudokia, standing, facing, wearing modified loros with kite-shaped lower panel

Inscriptions:  Obverse: ...NOV… (Emmanuel) Reverse: None visible.

Bibliography:  DOC III.2.8.23

Notes:  Countermark 16 (lillah) on obverse at 270 degrees; Lowick, Bendall and Whitting 'The Mardin Hoard' pp.40-41

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Mardin Hoard



Eudokia Makrembolitissa
Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Constantine X
Byzantine
c.1006
1067
Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


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