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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5643 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: Billon Diameter (cm): 3.05 Weight (g): 5.77 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3515, Cunningham, February 1951. |
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Description: Obverse: Virgin, nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne without back; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, short military tunic and sagion; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. hand globus cruciger. Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: IW / ΔCC / ΠΟ / TH / TW / ΠΟΡ Φ… / PO / Γ… / NH / T (John, despot, purple-born) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.9.2 Notes: Double struck on reverse. |
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3 Related People | |
| John II Komnenos Byzantine c. 1262 1297 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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