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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B6363 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Andronikos III Palaiologos; Constantinople Denomination: Assarion Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1341-1347 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.2 Weight (g): 2.97 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 6799. |
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Description: Obverse: Half-length figure of Saint George, beardless and nimbate, wearing military tunic and cuirass; holds in r. hand spear across body and in l. hand shield. Reverse: Half-length figure of emperor, wearing stemma, collar-piece and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand cross-topped sceptre and in l. hand globus cruciger. Inscriptions: Obverse: Ꙩ/ΓЄ P/W/ΓIO/C (Saint George) Reverse: Legend illegible. Bibliography: LPC 10 p.124; DOC V.894-895
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| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Andronikos III Palaiologos Byzantine 1297 1341 | |
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