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ID number: BIRBI-B5588 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Alexios I; Thessalonica Denomination: Tetarteron Noumion Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1081-1118 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.2 Weight (g): 2.61 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1508. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Virgin nimbate, orans, wearing tunic and maphorion. Reverse: Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision and chlamys; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: MP (Mother) Reverse: None visible.
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.39.4
Notes: Overstruck on Anonymous Follis, Class K, obverse on reverse.
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