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ID number: BIRBI-B6015 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Latin Empire; Thessalonica Denomination: Half-Tetarteron Noummion Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Frankish Date made: 1204-1261 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.8 Weight (g): 1.50 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1458. |

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Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of St. Helena nimbate, turned slightly to r., wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds patriarchal cross with flourish on shaft in l. hand. Reverse: Full-length figure of St. Constantine, turned slightly to l., wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand patriarchal cross, and in l. hand anexikakia.
Inscriptions: Obverse: HA / ΓI / ΛЄ / ΛЄ / HN (Saint Helena) Reverse: ΑHOO…K…T (Saint Constantine)
Bibliography: DOC IV.2.28.5
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