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ID number: BIRBI-B5842 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R. Maker: Andronikos I; Thessalonica Denomination: Tetarteron Noummion Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1183-1185 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.3 Weight (g): 5.38 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2374, ex. James R. Stewart, previously A. H. Baldwin, 22nd October 1968. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Virgin nimbate orans, wearing tunic and maphorion; beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, skaramangion or divitision and sagion; holds in r. hand labarum-headed sceptre and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: ANΔPO NIK OC (Andronikos)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.6.4
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