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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5630 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: John II; Constantinople Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1118-1143 Metal: Electrum Diameter (cm): 3.35 Weight (g): 4.33 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G495, A. H. Baldwin, March 1955. |
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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. Single pellet at each end of cushion on throne. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l., and of St. George, nimbate and beardless, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft. Emperor wears stemma, divitision and chlamys; saint wears short military tunic, breastplate and sagion, holds sword in l. hand. Inscriptions: Obverse: None Visible. Reverse: IW… (John…) ʘ / ꓛ… (Saint George) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.8b.2 Notes: Die drag on reverse. |
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3 Related People | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| John II Komnenos Byzantine c. 1262 1297 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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