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ID number: BIRBI-B5811 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Manouel I; Uncertain mint Denomination: Half-Tetarteron Place made: Europe: Greece Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1143-1180 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.6 Weight (g): 1.94 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 1476. |
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Description: Obverse: None. Reverse: Bust of emperor, beardless, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: M Λ Δ Π Κ [in cruciform monogram] (Manouel, despot, of the Komnenoi) Reverse: None.
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.22.6
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