Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-B5946 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Maker: Alexios III Angelos; Constantinople Denomination: Half-Tetarteron Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1195-1203 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.95 Weight (g): 2.97 Axis (degrees): 180.00 |
|
Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of Virgin nimbate, orans, wearing tunic and maphorion, turned towards r. Manus Dei in upper r. field. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand cross-topped sceptre, and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None Visible. Reverse: ...ΔCCΠ… (despot)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.6
|