Copper Tetarteron, Anonymous or Uncertain Nicaean Issue, Magnesia
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Copper Tetarteron, Anonymous or Uncertain Nicaean Issue, Magnesia

1227-1261(?) CE

Description

Obv.: Letter B (backwards) decorated with three pellets each in l. and r. field (in < and > shapes). Rev.: Full-length figure of emperor, seated upon throne with back; wears stemma, divitsion, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger, and in l., anexikakia.

Classification
Coins
Technique
Struck
Medium
Copper
Culture
Byzantine
Period
Byzantine period, Middle
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Department
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

4.24 g

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