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ID number: BIRBI-B6125 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Maker: Manouel Komnenos Doukas; Thessalonica Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: c.1204-1261 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.7 Weight (g): 0.66 |
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Description: Obverse: Unclear. Reverse: Full-length figure of ruler on l. and of Saint Constantine? Both hold between them patriarchal cross; emperor, bearded, wears stemma, divitision and simplified loros; holds jeweled sceptre? in r. hand; Saint Constantine, nimbate, wears stemma, collar-piece, loros and sagion; holds sceptre? in l. hand.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None? Reverse: MAN…ΔOK… (Manouel Doukas)
Bibliography: DOC IV.2.Var.
Notes: Attribution to Manouel Doukas obtained through vestiges of inscription, but type apparently unpublished.
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