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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B6126 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Maker: Constantine Asen; Trnovo Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Europe: Bulgaria, Veliko Trnovo Culture: Bulgarian Date made: 1257-1277 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.7 Weight (g): 1.95 Axis (degrees): 180.00 |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Virgin, facing, nimbate and orans, wearing tunic and maphorion; two eight-pointed stars below bust. Reverse: Full-length figure of Tsar wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand cross-within-circle on long shaft, and in l. hand anexikakia; stars in field. Inscriptions: Obverse: ...Γ…HM…T…P…K (St. Demetrios?) Reverse: …AN Δ (Constantine Doukas) Bibliography: DOC IV.2.4a.Var.; Dochev 1992 Plate 27.Typ.4, p.228 Notes: Despite the obverse inscription seemingly reading 'Demetrios', the figure is actually the Theotokos, and so this would seem to be an unrecorded type. |
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