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Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-B5702 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Manouel I; Constantinople Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1143-1180 Metal: Electrum Diameter (cm): 3.2 Weight (g): 4.60 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G1471, A. H. Baldwin, 17th July 1965. |
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Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of Christ, standing on dais, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds Gospels in l. hand; * in l. and r. field; Pellet in each limb of nimbus cross. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor, bearded, on l., and of St. Theodore, bearded and nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft at base of which a large globe; emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds sheathed sword in r. hand; saint wears short military tunic and breastplate; holds sheathed sword in l. hand.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: M ANUHΛ (Manouel) ʘ / Θ / Є… / Δ… (Saint Theodore)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.4c.4
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