Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Go to the Advanced Search
Viewing Record 1 of 1 


Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-MH0137
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.; Mardin Hoard
Maker:  Anonymous; Constantinople
Denomination:  Follis
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine; Turkman
Date made:  c.1085-c.1092
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.95
Weight (g):  4.76
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 8043, January 1976.
BIRBI-MH0137.jpg

Description:  Obverse: Bust of Christ (Type VII b) facing, with nimbus. Reverse: Bust of figure.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: None visible. Reverse: None visible.

Bibliography:  DOC III.2.K.21

Notes:  Countermark 25 (sim, lam, alif) on obverse at 135 degrees; Lowick, Bendall and Whitting 'The Mardin Hoard' p.45; Reverse displays multiple overstrikes.

3 Related People

Whitting_Phillip-T.jpg
Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Mardin Hoard



Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


Viewing Record 1 of 1