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ID number: BIRBI-B5383 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. C. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine X; Constantinople Denomination: Tetarteron Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1059-1067 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.95 Weight (g): 3.97 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 363, Glendining, 1922. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of the Virgin facing, nimbate, orans, wearing tunic and maphorion; single border of dots. Reverse: Bust of emperor facing, bearded, wearing modified loros and crown with cross and pendilia, in r. hand globus cruciger, in l. hand akakia; single border of dots.
Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: KWN RACIΛOΔUK (Constantine Doukas, emperor)
Bibliography: DOC.III.2.3a.2
Notes: Clipped.
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