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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5686 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. C. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: John II; Thessalonica Denomination: Half-Tetarteron Noummion Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1118-1143 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.7 Weight (g): 2.29 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 2446, ex. Edward Shepherd Collection, 1947. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of St. Demetrios, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic, breastplate and sagion; holds in r. hand sword, and in l. hand shield. Reverse: Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum-topped sceptre, and in l. hand globus cruciger. Inscriptions: Obverse: ʘ / ΔH / MH / T / PI (Saint Demetrios) Reverse: +IW ΔCC (John, despot) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.17.7
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3 Related People | |
| Haines, Geoffrey Colton British 1899 1981-09-14 | |
| Thessalonica | |
| John II Komnenos Byzantine c. 1262 1297 | |
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