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ID number: BIRBI-B5836 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Andronikos I; Constantinople Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1183-1185 Metal: Billon Diameter (cm): 2.75 Weight (g): 2.97 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3563. |

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Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, standing on dais; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l., crowned by Christ bearded and nimbate. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum-headed sceptre, and in l. hand globus cruciger; Christ wearing tunic and kolobion, holds Gospels in l. hand.
Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: ANΔPONIKOC (Andronikos)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.3b.1
Notes: Double-struck on obverse and reverse.
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