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ID number: BIRBI-B5786 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Manouel I; Thessalonica Denomination: Tetarteron Noummion Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1143-1180 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.3 Weight (g): 3.98 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3533. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of St. George, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic, breastplate and sagion; holds in r. hand spear, and in l. hand shield. Reverse: Bust of emperor, bearded, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum-headed sceptre, and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ʘ / ΓЄ P / W / ΓI / O / C (Saint George) Reverse: ...ΔЄC…OT (despot)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.18.2
Notes: Overstruck on Anonymous Follis, Class K.
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