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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5849 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Isaac Komnenos; Cyprus Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Cyprus Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1185-1191 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.05 Weight (g): 4.25 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3577. |
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Description: Obverse: Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne without back; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l., and of St. George, beardless and nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft at the base of which a small globe; emperor wears stemma, divitision and chlamys; holds anexikakia in r. hand; saint wears short military tunic and breastplate; holds sword in l. hand. Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: ·ICAAKIOC (Isaac) ʘ / ΓЄ / WP / ΓI / OC (Saint George) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.2.3
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3 Related People | |
| Isaac Komnenos Byzantine c. 1155 1196 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Cyprus Byzantine;Frankish | |
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