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ID number:  BIRBI-B6099
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R.; Lord Grantley
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):  1.60
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 6154. ex. James R. Stewart Collection, 30th January 1968, previously ex. Grantley Collection
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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 (Saint [George]) Reverse: IW ΔЄ C O ΔV… (John Doukas, despot)

Bibliography:  DOC IV.2.58.3

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5 Related People

Lord Grantley
British
01 Oct 1855
05 Aug 1943
Stewart, James R.
Australian
03 Jul 1913
06 Feb 1962
John III Doukas Vatatzes
Byzantine
c. 1192
1254
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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Magnesia
Byzantine


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