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Monograms
Coin: 12393
Format
Coin
Numismatic Collection
Firestone
Issue
8225
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Special Collections - Numismatics Collection
Coin 12393
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First half of obverse inscription damaged. Reverse inscription missing.
Object Type
coin
Denomination
half-tetarteron
Metal
Bronze
Region
Greece
State
Byzantine Empire
City
Uncertain Greek Mint
Ruler
Manuel I Komnenos (1143 to 1180)
Date
1152 to 1160
Obverse Figure Description
St. George, bust, Bust of St. George, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic, breastplate, and sagion; holds in right hand spear, and in left, shield
Obverse Legend
Ο/Γ/Ε left, ΡW(ligatured)/ΓΙ/Ο/S(slanted)
Reverse Figure Description
Emperor, bust, Bust of emperor, bearded, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in right hand labarum-headed scepter, and in left, globus cruciger
Reverse Legend
ΜΑΝU ΗΛ ΔΕCΠΟΤ
Citations
DOC, Michael Hendy, Alexius I to Michael VIII, 1081-1261, 1999 vol. IV part 1, p. 337 Manuel I 23
BMC, Warwick Wroth, Imperial Byzantine Coins in the British Museum, 1908 Manuel I 75-78
Sear, David R. Sear, Byzantine Coins and Their Values, 1987 1980
References
DOC
BMC
Sear
Coin Description
Size
16 in mm
Die Axis
6
Weight
2.11 in grams
Accession
Accession number: 727, 1976-01-01, T. Leslie Shear
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