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ID number:  BIRBI-B5776
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Manouel I; Constantinople
Denomination:  Tetarteron Noummion
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  1143-1180
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.05
Weight (g):  4.07
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 3524, Glendining, 3rd May 1951.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Christ, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in l. hand; pellet in each limb of nimbus cross. Reverse: Bust of emperor, beardless, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece and paneled loros of simplified type; h

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: MANU HΛ ΔЄCΠ (Manouel, despot)

Bibliography:  DOC IV.1.14a.1

3 Related People

Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Manouel I Komnenos
Byzantine
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1180
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