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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5380 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constantine X; Constantinople Denomination: Histamenon Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1059-1067 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.7 Weight (g): 4.40 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G1157, Sotheby, 10th December 1962. |
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Description: Obverse: Christ seated on lyre-backed throne (Type Id) facing, bearded, with cross nimbus, wearing tunic and himation; r. hand raised in blessing, l. hand holds book; double border of dots. Reverse: To l. emperor standing, facing, bearded, wearing modified loros and crown with cross and pendilia, holding r. hand to breast and globus cruciger in l. hand; To r. Virgin standing, facing, nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, holding l. hand before her and crowning emperor with r. hand; between heads M, to r. of her head, Θ; double border of dots. Inscriptions: Obverse: +ISXSRCX …NANTIhm (Jesus Christ, King of Kings) Reverse: +KWNRACΛ OΔOUKAC (Constantine Doukas, emperor) Bibliography: DOC.III.2.2.1 Notes: Double struck on obverse; possible test gauge on obverse at 0 degrees. |
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| Constantine X Byzantine c.1006 1067 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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