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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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