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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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