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ID number: BIRBI-B6165 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): 2.6 Weight (g): 2.29 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4869. c.1949 or before. |

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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: AΓI ΔHM (Saint Demetrios) Reverse: Θ ([Mother] of God)
Bibliography: DOC V.66-69
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