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ID number: BIRBI-B5428 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R. Maker: Romanos IV Diogenes; Eudokia Makrembolitissa; Constantinople Denomination: Tetarteron Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1068-1071 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.8 Weight (g): 4.05 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G618, ex. James R. Stewart collection, 30th January 1968, previously Rashleigh collection, 15th January 1953. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of the Virgin facing, wearing tunic and maphorion, holding medallion of the Infant Christ with cross behind head. Reverse: Half-figures of Romanos on l. and Eudokia on r. facing, holding between them globe which supports a long cross, Romanos wearing modified loros and crown with cross and Pendilia, Eudokia wearing modified loros and crown with pinnacles and pendilia; single border of dots.
Inscriptions: Obverse: +ΘKЄ ROHΘ (Mother of God, aid) MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: +IWMANSCVΔKRIM (Romanos [and] Eudokia Makrembolitissa)
Bibliography: DOC III.2.3.3
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