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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5622 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. C. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: John II; Constantinople Denomination: Hyperpyron Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1118-1143 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 3.2 Weight (g): 4.42 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 3361, A. H. Baldwin, 1957. |
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Description: Obverse: Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; r. hand raised in benediction, holds Gospels in l. hand. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l., crowned by Virgin. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. hand anexikakia. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion. Inscriptions: Obverse: IC X (Jesus Christ) Reverse: IW / ΔCC / ΠOT / TW / Π / ΦV / OO / ΓC / NH / T (John, despot, purple-born) M Θ (Mother of God) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.2.7
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3 Related People | |
| Haines, Geoffrey Colton British 1899 1981-09-14 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| John II Komnenos Byzantine c. 1262 1297 | |
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