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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5472 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: Two-Thirds Miliaresion Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1071-1078 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 1.8 Weight (g): 0.82 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 6184, A. H. Baldwin, 30th September 1968, ex. Dr. Protonotarios collection. |
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Description: Obverse: Cross crosslet above three steps, each arm ending in a pellet and with a pellet at either side below, with X at central intersection, and crescent on shaft; to l. bust of Michael facing, wearing chlamys with tablion and crown with cross and pendilia; to r. bust of Maria, wearing modified loros with collar-piece and crown with pinnacles and pendilia; single linear border. Reverse: - + - above legend. Inscriptions: Obverse: ЄNTȣTNI / HΛTCΠIIΛ (In this you conquer, Michael) Reverse: ΘHЄR,Θ, / MIXAHΛ / ΔЄCΠOTH / TWΔOV / - KA - (Mother of God, aid Michael, despot, of the Doukai) Bibliography: DOC III.2.10 Notes: Pierced on obverse at 0 degrees. |
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4 Related People | |
| Maria of Alania Georgian 1053 | |
| Michael VII Doukas Byzantine | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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