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ID number: BIRBI-MH0160 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.1080-c.1092 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.3 Weight (g): 4.95 Provenance: Whitting 8065, January 1976. |

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Description: Obverse: None visible. Reverse: Cross with large pellet at extremity.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None visible. Reverse: None visible.
Notes: Countermark 1 (atabeg), 18b (lillah), countermark 12 ('adl, 'izz) and countermark 13 ('izz) on obverse at centre, and on reverse at 315 and 135 respectively; Lowick, Bendall and Whitting 'The Mardin Hoard' p. 32, 41-2, 37-9
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