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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5461 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Michael VII; Maria of Alania; Constantinople Denomination: Tetarteron Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1071-1078 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 1.95 Weight (g): 4.00 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G1778, A. H. Baldwin, 1969. |
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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, pellet in each limb; single border of dots. Reverse: Half-length figures of Michael on l. and Maria on r. facing, holding between them long cross, with terminal pellets to arms, on with X and crescent on shaft. Michael wears modified loros and crown with cross and pendilia, Maria wears modified loros with collar-piece and crown with pinnacles and pendilia; single border of dots. Inscriptions: Obverse: +ΘKЄRO HΘЄI (Mother of God, aid) MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: +MIX A HΛ S M APIA (Michael and Maria) Bibliography: DOC III.2.5a.1
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4 Related People | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Michael VII Doukas Byzantine | |
| Maria of Alania Georgian 1053 | |
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