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ID number: BIRBI-B5671 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: John II; Thessalonica Denomination: Hyperpyron Nomisma Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1118-1143 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 3 Weight (g): 4.48 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G1785, A. H. Baldwin, 7th July 1970. |

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Description: Obverse: Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; r. hand raised in benediction, holds Gospels in l. hand. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l., crowned by Virgin; emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. hand anexikakia; Virgin wears tunic and maphorion.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: IW / ...Є / …O (John, despot) Θ MP (Mother of God)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.5
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