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ID number: BIRBI-B6154 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Michael VIII Palaiologos; Constantinople Denomination: Trachea Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1261-1282 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.8 Weight (g): 2.76 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4075. ex. Herzfelder, July 1963. |

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Description: Obverse: Virgin, nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne with back; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. Reverse: Kneeling figure of emperor on l. being presented to seated Christ by Archangel Michael; emperor wears stemma, colar-piece and paneled loros of simplified type; above the Archangel Michael, beardless and nimbate; Christ, bearded and nimbate, wears tunic and kolobion, r. hand raised in benediction, l. hand holds scroll.
Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: ...ΠOTIC (despot) …O...Λ… (Palaiologos) X MIX… (Archangel Michael) X (Christ)
Bibliography: DOC V.29-32
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