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ID number:  BIRBI-B6197
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Andronikos II Palaiologos; Constantinople
Denomination:  Hyperpyron
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  1282-1328
Metal:  Gold
Diameter (cm):  2.65
Weight (g):  4.12
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting G1811. A. H. Baldwin, 26th March 1981.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Virgin, nimbate and orans, within the walls of Constantinople; sigla C N. Reverse: Full-length figure of Christ standing, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, holds in l. hand Gospels and blesses emperor with r. hand; emperor, bearded, wears stemma, collar-piece and skaramangion, and crouches in proskynesis to l. of Christ; to r. ΓI/A.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: None. Reverse: …PO/…NH…/XWIЄ/IΛΘЄI/ΔЄΠTH (Andronikos, through Christ God, despot)

Bibliography:  DOC V.220-228

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Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Andronikos II Palaiologos
Byzantine
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