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ID number: BIRBI-B5920 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Isaac II; Thessalonica Denomination: Tetarteron Noummion Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1185-1195 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.9 Weight (g): 2.78 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3575. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of archangel Michael, beardless and nimbate, wearing divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand jeweled sceptre or spear, and in l. hand globus cruciger. Reverse: Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand cross-topped sceptre, and in l. hand anexikakia.
Inscriptions: Obverse: …X …M (Archangel Michael) Reverse: ICA / AKI / OC ΔЄ / CΠO / THC (Isaac, despot)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.5c.Var.
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