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ID number: BIRBI-B5492 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): 2.1 Weight (g): 2.01 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0158, Seaby, August 1949. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ (Type V e) facing, bearded, with cross behind head, wearing tunic and himation; 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 in r. hand labarum, in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None visible. Reverse: None visible.
Bibliography: DOC III.2.14a.7
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