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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5463 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: Electrum Diameter (cm): 1.9 Weight (g): 4.01 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G0372,Spink, June 1949. |
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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 r. and Maria on l. 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: MO AHΛXMA (Michael and Maria?) Bibliography: DOC III.2.5a.1 Notes: The figures of Michael and Maria have been engraved the opposite way around on the reverse die. |
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4 Related People | |
| Michael VII Doukas Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Maria of Alania Georgian 1053 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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