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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5829 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Andronikos I; Constantinople Denomination: Hyperpyron Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1183-1185 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.8 Weight (g): 4.21 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G407, ex. J. C. S. Rashleigh, January 1953. |
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Description: Obverse: Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne with back; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l., crowned by Christ, bearded and nimbate; emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece, paneled loros and sagion; holds in r. hand labarum-headed sceptre, and in l. hand globus cruciger; Christ, wearing tunic and kolobion, holds Gosepls in l. hand. Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: VAV...ΓIKOC ΔЄCΠOTHC (Andronikos, despot) IC XC (Jesus Christ) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.1.4
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3 Related People | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Andronikos I Komnenos Byzantine 1185 | |
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