Description
Collection Number: WC 11140
Object Number:
Dates: 1152 - 1160
Denomination: Half Tetarteron
Dimensions: 16.44mm
Weight: 1.52g
Authority: Manuel I Comnenus
Mint: Uncertain
Languages: Greek
Obverse Type: O/Г/ - /ГI/OS; Bust of Saint George, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic, breastplate, and sagion; holds in right hand spear, and in left, shield
Obverse Legend:
[O/Г/ - /ГI/OS]
Obverse Inscription Languages: Greek
Obverse Mintmarks:
N/A
Obverse Inscription Comment: N/A
Reverse Type: MΛN HΛ - ΔCΠOT; Bust of emperor, bearded, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jewelled loros of simplified type; holds in right hand labarum-headed sceptre, and in left, globus cruciger
Reverse Legend:
[MΛN HΛ - ΔCΠOT]
Reverse Inscription Languages: Greek
Reverse Mintmarks:
N/A
Reverse Inscription Comments: N/A
Bibliography
DOC IV p. 337 n. 23, Plate XVI
BNP p. 719 nn. 1-15, Plate C
BMC Byz vol. 2 p. 579 n. 78, Plate LXX,17
Ratto --
Sabatier --
Sommer p. 350 n. 61.25
Sear 1980