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ID number: BIRBI-MH0126b Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Mardin Hoard Maker: Anonymous; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine; Turkman Date made: c.1085-c.1092 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.40 Weight (g): 5.71 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 8188, January 1976. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ (Type VIIb) facing, with cross nimbus. Reverse: Half-length figure of the Virgin facing, nimbate, orans, wearing tunic and maphorion.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None visible. Reverse: None visible.
Bibliography: DOC III.2.K.12
Notes: Countermark 18a (lillah?) on reverse at 270 degrees; Lowick, Bendall and Whitting 'The Mardin Hoard' pp.41-42
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