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Numismatics 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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5 Related People | |
| Lord Grantley British 01 Oct 1855 05 Aug 1943 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Stewart, James R. Australian 03 Jul 1913 06 Feb 1962 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Andronikos III Palaiologos Byzantine 1297 1341 | |
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