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ID number: BIRBI-B5395 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constantine X; Eudokia Makrembolitissa; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1059-1067 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.75 Weight (g): 6.26 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3779, A. H. Baldwin, December 1952. |
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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; r. hand raised in blessing, l. hand holds book. Reverse: To l. Eudokia standing, facing, wearing modified loros with kite-shaped lower panel and crown with cross and pendilia. To r. Constantine standing, facing, wearing modified loros and crown with cross and pendilia. They hold between them labarum, with cross-piece on shaft, standing on base and three steps, each one places one hand on heart.
Inscriptions: Obverse: + .Reverse: +KWNT (Constantine)
Bibliography: DOC III.2.8.27
Notes: Overstruck on anonymous follis; Arab countermark on obverse at centre.
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