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ID number: BIRBI-B6085 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: John III Doukas Vatatzes; Magnesia Denomination: Hyperpyron Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Manisa Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1232-54? Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.65 Weight (g): 4.28 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G1311. A. H. Baldwin, 30th December 1963, 'from Turkey'. |

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Description: Obverse: Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; r. hand raised in benediction, holds Gospels in l. hand. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l. crowned by Virgin nimbate; emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. hand anexikakia; Virgin wears tunic and maphorion.
Inscriptions: Obverse: X (Christ) Reverse: Θ ([Mother]of God) TW / Π…/Φ…/I… (Purple-born)
Bibliography: DOC IV.2.4a
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