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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4954 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: John I; Constantinople Denomination: Nomisma Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 969-976 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.20 Weight (g): 4.42 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 610. Glendining, 8th March 1957. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, holding in l. hand bejewelled book. Reverse: John standing facing on l. bearded and wearing loros and crown topped with cross with manus dei above, holding globus topped with trefoil in l. hand, Theotokos on r. facing, wearing tunic and maphorion, with M and Θ in r. field, r. hand raised up to John's crown. Inscriptions: Obverse: + IhS XIS RЄX RЄCNANTInM (Jesus Christ, King of Kings). Reverse: + ΘЄΘTOC' bOHΘ' IѠ δЄSI (Mother of God aid John, Lord). Bibliography: DOC III.2 1a
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| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| John I Armenian 976 | |
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