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ID number:  BIRBI-B6103
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):  1.85
Weight (g):  1.75
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 6153. 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 ΓWP (Saint George) Reverse: IW ΔCC Π…OΔȣKAC (John Doukas, despot)

Bibliography:  DOC IV.2.58.11

Notes:  Traces of understrike.

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5 Related People

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


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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