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ID number: BIRBI-B4969 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Basil II; Constantine VIII; Constantinople Denomination: Nomisma Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1001-1005 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.40 Weight (g): 4.40 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0007. Bought Spink January 1948. |

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Description: Obverse: bust of Christ nimbate facing, holding gospel in l. hand, seven pellets in each limb of cross. Reverse: busts of Basil I. and Constantine r. wearing modified loros and chlamys with jewelled tablion, respectively, and cross crowns with pendilia, holding patriarchal cross crosslet between them; above Basil's head, a manus dei.
Inscriptions: Obverse: + IhS XIS RЄX RЄΓNANTInm (Jesus Christ King of Kings) Reverse · + bΛSIL C COnSτChTI n R · (Basil and Constantine, emperor, king).
Bibliography: DOC III.2 AV4 var.
Notes: Pellets before and after rev. inscription make this coin a variant on type DOC III.2 AV4.
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