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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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Whitting, Philip David
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