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ID number:  BIRBI-B5698
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.; Nicosia 1920 Hoard
Maker:  Manouel I; Constantinople
Denomination:  Aspron Trachy Nomisma
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  1143-1180
Metal:  Electrum
Diameter (cm):  3.4
Weight (g):  4.04
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting G1475, Spink, June 1963, from Nicosia Hoard, c.1920.
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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; pellet in each limb of nimbus cross. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor, bearded, on l., and of Virgin nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft at the base of which a small globe; emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds anexikakia in r. hand; Virgin wears tunic and maphorion.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: ΔЄCΠOTH (despot) MM ΘV (Mother of God)

Bibliography:  DOC IV.1.3a.1

Notes:  Double-struck on reverse.

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Nicosia 1920 Hoard



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Roman;Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
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