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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5340 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constantine IX; Constantinople Denomination: Histamenon Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1042-1055 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.9 Weight (g): 4.39 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G1100, Glendining, 15th March 1962. |
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Description: Obverse: Christ seated on wide lyre-backed throne (Type 1d) facing, bearded, wearing tunic and himation, holding book ; triple pellet border. Reverse: Bust of emperor facing, wearing loros of traditional pattern and crown with cross and pendilia, in r. hand labarum, in l. hand globus cruciger; triple pellet border. Inscriptions: Obverse: +IhsXISREX REGNANTIhM (Jesus Christ, king of kings) Reverse: +CωhNST AnTh bASILЄЧRM (Constantine, emperor of the Romans) Bibliography: DOC.III.2.2a.3 Notes: Die slippage on reverse. |
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| Constantine IX Byzantine 1055 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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