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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B6164 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R. 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): 2.77 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5985. ex. James R. Stewart Collection, 30th January 1968. |
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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: OAΓI ΔI MH TR I O (Saint Demetrios) Reverse: MH...ΘV (Mother of God) O Π (Palaiologos) Bibliography: DOC V.66-69
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| Stewart, James R. Australian 03 Jul 1913 06 Feb 1962 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Michael VIII Palaiologos Byzantine 1223 1282 | |
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