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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5695 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. C. Haines 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): 4.09 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 2175, Spink, 1942. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ Emmanuel, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in l. hand; pellet in each limb of nimbus cross. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor, bearded, wearing stemma, skaramangion or divitision and sagion; holds in r. hand labarum-headed sceptre, and in l. hand anexikakia; Manus Dei in upper field. Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) O / ЄM / MA / Nȣ / HΛ (Emmanuel) Reverse: MA / NUHΛ / ΔЄC / ΠΟ / ΤΗ Ο / ΠΟΡ / ΦVP / ΓЄN / NHT (Manouel, despot, purple-born) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.5b.3
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3 Related People | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Manouel I Komnenos Byzantine 1118 1180 | |
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