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ID number: BIRBI-B6326 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R.; Lord Grantley Maker: Andronikos II Palaiologos; Michael IX Palaiologos; Constantinople Denomination: Assarion Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1294-1320 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.1 Weight (g): 1.80 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 6041, ex. James R. Stewart Collection, 30th January 1968, previously ex. Grantley Collection. |
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Description: Obverse: None. Reverse: Half-length figures of two emperors, holding between them labarum on long shaft with circular ornament on shaft; both wear stemma, collar-piece and loros of simplified type.
Inscriptions: Obverse: AVTO/KPATOP/ЄCPWM/AIWN (Emperor of the Romans) Reverse: AVTO…AIWN (Emperor of the Romans)
Bibliography: DOC V.691; LPC 41 p.92 (Exact Coin)
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