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ID number:  BIRBI-B5487
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):  6.59
Axis (degrees):  225.00
Provenance:  Whitting 2394.
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Description:  Obverse: Six-pointed star to l. and r. of ?. Reverse: Bust facing, bearded, wearing modified loros with collar-piece and crown with cross and pendilia, holding in r. hand labarum, in l. hand globus cruciger.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: None visible

Bibliography:  DOC III.2.14a.4

Notes:  Overstruck on anonymous follis, class I

3 Related People

Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


Michael VII Doukas
Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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