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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4965 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Basil II; Constantine VIII; Constantinople Denomination: Nomisma Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 977-989 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.30 Weight (g): 4.43 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1402. Bought A. H. Baldwin. 10th October 1964 from Istanbul. |
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Description: Obverse: bust of Christ nimbate facing, holding gospel in l. hand, single pellet to top limb of cross. Reverse: busts of Basil l. and Constantine r. wearing traditional loros and chlamys, respectively, and cross crowns, holding plain patriarchal cross between them. Inscriptions: Obverse: S ITS XIS ΠЄN NЄGNIVTIhm (Jesus Christ King of Kings). Reverse: +bASIL C …OnSτΛnTIn R (Basil and Constantine, king). Bibliography: DOC III.2 AV2c Notes: Cracking on obverse, possible clipping to topr. of obverse |
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4 Related People | |
| Basil II Byzantine 958 1025 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Constantine VIII Byzantine 960 1028 | |
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