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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5474 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Michael VII; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1071-1078 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.7 Weight (g): 5.80 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4977, ex. Weller, 23rd July 1965. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ (Type V e) facing, bearded, with cross behind head, wearing tunic and himation; r. hand raised in blessing, l. hand holds book with ornamental cover (·>:<·); six-pointed star to l. and r. of bust. Reverse: bust facing, bearded, wearing modified loros with collar-piece and crown with cross and pendilia, holding labarum in r. hand and globus cruciger in l. hand. Inscriptions: Obverse: XC (Christ) Reverse: +MIX…OΔ (Michael Doukas…) Bibliography: DOC III.2.14a.5 Notes: Overstruck on follis of Romanos IV Diogenes, obverse on reverse. |
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| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Michael VII Doukas Byzantine | |
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