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Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-B5939 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Alexios III Angelos; Constantine I; Constantinople Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1195-1203 Metal: Billon Diameter (cm): 2.4 Weight (g): 1.47 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3604. |

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Description: Obverse: Beardless, nimbate bust of Christ, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in l. hand; Pellet, or pellets, normally in each limb of nimbus cross. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l., and of St. Constantine nimbate, holding between them globus cruciger; emperor and saint wear stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; both hold labarum headed sceptre.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: · WK (Saint Constantine) TWKO… (of the Komnenoi)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.3b.Var.
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