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ID number: BIRBI-B5845 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Andronikos I; Uncertain mint Denomination: Half-Tetarteron Place made: Europe: Greece Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1183-1185 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.6 Weight (g): 1.29 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3570. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Virgin nimbate orans, wearing tunic and maphorion; beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. Reverse: Half-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: AN (Andronikos)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.8.2
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