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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
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