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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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