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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5348 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constantine IX; Constantinople Denomination: Histamenon Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1054(?)-1055 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.55 Weight (g): 4.39 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G1115, Hesperia, May 1962. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ Pantocrator (Type VIIIc) facing, bearded, with cross nimbus, wearing tunic and himation; r. hand blessing, l. hand clasps book; triple pellet border. Reverse: Bust of emperor facing, bearded, wearing jeweled chlamys with collar-piece, and crown with cross and pendilia, holding in r. hand globus cruciger, in l. hand sword; star to l. and r. of bust; triple pellet border. Inscriptions: Obverse: +IhSXISREXREGNANTIhM (Jesus Christ, king of kings) Reverse: +CωhSTAHT nOSbASILЄЧ… (Constantine, emperor of the Romans) Bibliography: DOC.III.2.4a.3 Notes: Die slippage on reverse. |
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| Constantine IX Byzantine 1055 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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