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ID number: BIRBI-B6098 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. C. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Colton Maker: John III Doukas Vatatzes; Magnesia Denomination: Tetarteron Noummion Place made: Eurasia: Manisa Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1221-1254 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.05 Weight (g): 3.00 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 692. Spink, 1923. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Saint George, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic, breastplate and sagion; holds in r. hand spear, resting over shoulder, and in l. hand shield. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, jeweled loros of simplified type and sagion; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. hand anexikakia.
Inscriptions: Obverse: Ꙩ ΓW (Saint George) Reverse: IW ΔЄC ΠO TH O ΔȣKAC (John Doukas, despot)
Bibliography: DOC IV.2.58.9
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