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ID number: BIRBI-B5924 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Alexios III Angelos; Constantine I; Constantinople Denomination: Hyperpyron Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1195-1203 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 3 Weight (g): 4.37 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G0075. A. H. Baldwin, April 1951. |
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Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of Christ, bearded and nimbate, standing on dais, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds Gospels in l. hand, :·: in each limb of nimbus cross. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l. and of St. Constantine nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft ending in a small globule; emperor wears stemma, divitision, and chlamys; holds anexikakia in r. hand; saint wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: AΔЄΧ...ΔCC (Alexios, despot) ꙨKWNTANTI (Saint Constantine)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.1a.1
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