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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B6163 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. C. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Colton Maker: Michael VIII Palaiologos; Constantinople Denomination: Trachea Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1261-1282 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.55 Weight (g): 2.03 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 4126. ex. P. D. Whitting Collection, 1967. |
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Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of Saint Demetrios, beardless and nimbate, wearing military tunic and breastplate; holds in r. hand spear and in l. hand shield. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l. and of Virgin, blessing or crowning; emperor wears stemma, loros and divitision; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft and in l. hand anexikakia; Virgin, nimbate, wears tunic and maphorion. Inscriptions: Obverse: A… (Saint [Demetrios]) Reverse: X… M...Π…CO… (Michael Palaiologos) ΘV ([Mother] of God) Bibliography: DOC V.66-69
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| Haines, Geoffrey Colton British 1899 1981-09-14 | |
| Michael VIII Palaiologos Byzantine 1223 1282 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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