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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4610 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Eirini; Constantinople Denomination: Solidus Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 797-802 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.10 Weight (g): 4.42 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0349. Bt Spink July 1949. |
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Description: Obverse: bust of Eirini facing, wearing loros and cross crown with pendilia and two pinnacles, a globus cruciger in r. hand, a cross topped sceptre in l. Reverse: bust of Eirini facing, wearing loros and cross crown with pendilia and two pinnacles, a globus cruciger in r. hand, a cross topped sceptre in l. Inscriptions: Obverse: EIRInH bASILISSH (Empress Eirini). Reverse: · EIRInH bASILISSH+ (Empress Irene). Bibliography: DOC III.1 pl.XV AV1a, BN II pl.LXX Cp/AV/03 Notes: Pierced |
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3 Related People | |
| Eirini Greek 752 803-08-09 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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