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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B2418 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Anonymous; Kherson Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Ukraine, Crimean Peninsula, Kherson Culture: Byzantine Date made: 6th century Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.15 Weight (g): 13.38 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3141. Gift of A.H. Baldwin, 15th March 1957. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of an emperor, standing, nimbate; wearing chlamys, and crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in r. hand. Bust of an empress, standing, nimbate; wearing chlamys, and trefoil crown with pendilia, holding a cross topped sceptre in l. hand. A cross between the two figures. Reverse: H, with cross above. A Caesar, standing, nimbate, wearing chlamys, tablion, and crown; holding a chrismon topped staff in r. hand. Inscriptions: Obverse: ΧЄΡ ϹΟΝΟ … (Kherson). Reverse: None. Bibliography: MIB II 157b Notes: Listed in MIB and DOC as a coin of Maurice and Constantina, and by Anokhin as of Justin II and Sophia, but argued by Hahn in an article in the Numismatic Circular to be an anonymous issue, which is the attribution we prefer. |
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| Kherson Greek, Byzantine. | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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