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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4926 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Nikephoros II; Basil II; Constantinople Denomination: Nomisma Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 963-969 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.00 Weight (g): 4.35 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0003. A.H. Baldwin, January 1952. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, holding in l. hand bejewelled book. Reverse: Nikephoros on l. facing, bearded, wearing loros and crown topped with cross, to r. facing bust of Basil, beardless, wearing chlamys and crown topped with cross. Both holding long patriarchal cross between them, Nikephoros with r. hand placed above Basil's l. hand. Inscriptions: Obverse: + IhS XΓS RЄX RЄGNANTIhM (Jesus Christ, King of Kings). Reverse: NIKH+OP KAI RACIΛ' AVΓ R' (Nikephoros and Basil, emperors of the Romans). Bibliography: DOC III.2 2
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4 Related People | |
| Basil II Byzantine 958 1025 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Nikephoros II Byzantine 969 | |
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