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ID number: BIRBI-B5800 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R.; Lord Grantley Maker: Manouel I; Thessalonica Denomination: Tetarteron Noummion Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1143-1180 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.8 Weight (g): 1.39 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5654, ex. James R. Stewart, 30th January 1968, previously ex. Grantley Collection. |
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Description: Obverse: Radiate cross on three steps. Reverse: Half-length figure of emperor, bearded, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: None Visible.
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.19.14
Notes: Double-struck or overstruck with same type, obverse on reverse.
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