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ID number: BIRBI-B6161 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: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.2 Weight (g): 1.73 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4882. Purchased c.1949. |

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Description: Obverse: Virgin Hagiosoritissa, standing orans half-left, wearing tunic and maphorion. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l. and of military saint, holding between them labarum; emperor wears stemma, collar-piece, divitision and paneled loros of simpified type; holds in r. hand cross-topped sceptre; military saint, beardless and nimbate, wears military tunic, breastplate and sagion.
Inscriptions: Obverse: M Θ (Mother of God) Reverse: ΔЄC ΠO T (despot)
Bibliography: DOC V.64-65
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