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ID number: BIRBI-B5976 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Maker: Latin Empire; Constantinople Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Frankish Date made: 1204-1261 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.9 Weight (g): 2.97 Axis (degrees): 180.00 |

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Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of archangel Michael nimbate, wearing collar-piece, short military tunic (and loros?); holds in r. hand sceptre (?). Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, paneled loros of simplified type and sagion; holds in r. hand sceptre and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: X ([Archangel] Michael) Reverse: NIKI ΔT ([blundered] Andronikos? Despot)
Bibliography: DOC IV.2.13
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