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ID number: BIRBI-B6350 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 III Palaiologos; Constantinople Denomination: Half-Basilikon Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1328-1341 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 1.65 Weight (g): 0.85 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 6150. ex. James R. Stewart Collection, 30th January 1968, previously ex. Grantley Collection. |

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Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of Saint Demetrios, beardless and nimbate, wearing cuirass, military tunic and cloak; holds in r. hand spear and in l. hand shield. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor and to r. Virgin; emperor, bearded, wears stemma, collar-piece and jeweled loros; emperors hand on breast; Virgin wears tunic and maphorion, and gestures towards emperor.
Inscriptions: Obverse: OAΓIOC ([in retrograde] Saint) HTPIOC (Demetrios) Reverse: ANΔNKOC (Andronikos) ΘV ([Mother] of God)
Bibliography: LPC 6 p.120.
Notes: Pierced twice in centre of coin.
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