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ID number: BIRBI-B5838 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: Tetarteron Noummion Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1183-1185 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.35 Weight (g): 5.13 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3567. |

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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 and chlamys; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. hand anexikakia; Christ, wearing tunic and kolobion, holds Gospels in l. hand.
Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: ...HΔPON...Δ… (Andronikos, despot) IC XC (Jesus Christ)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.5a.1
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