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ID number: BIRBI-B5923 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Theodore Mankaphas; Philadelphia Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Manisa, Alaşehir Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1188-1189 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 3 Weight (g): 3.35 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0289. I. M. Hanson, January 1968, from Istanbul. |

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Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, standing on dais; r. hand held in benediction, holds Gospels in l. hand; long cross with transverse bat in circle to l. Reverse: Full-length figure of ruler wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, jeweled loros of simplified type (?), and sagion (?); holds in both hands sceptre surmounted by patriarchal cross, obliquely across body.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None visible. Reverse: Θ / Δ / P (Theodore)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.1 (Exact Coin)
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