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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B6124 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Isaac II Angelos; Constantinople Denomination: Hyperpyron Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1185-1195 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.8 Weight (g): 3.29 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3234. A. H. Baldwin, August 1958. |
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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. and of Archangel Michael, beardless and nimbate, holding between them partially sheathed sword, point downward; emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand cross-topped sceptre; Archangel wears short military tunic, breastplate and sagion; Manus Dei in upper field. Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: ICAAKIOCΔЄCΠO (Isaac, despot) X AP X MI (Archangel Michael) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.1.Var. Notes: This coin appears to have the same die identities as B6601, which is a cast counterfeit of this type; billon coin struck with hyperpyron dies. |
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| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Isaac II Angelos Byzantine 1156 1204 | |
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