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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5846 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Isaac Komnenos; Cyprus Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Cyprus Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1185-1191 Metal: Electrum Diameter (cm): 3 Weight (g): 3.36 Provenance: Whitting G1743. A. H. Baldwin, 23rd April 1969. |
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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, divitision and chlamys; holds in r. hand cross-topped sceptre, and in l. hand anexikakia. Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: I / CA / AKI / OC Δ / ЄC / ΠO / TH / C (Isaak, despot) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.1.2 (Exact coin) Notes: Flattened. |
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3 Related People | |
| Cyprus Byzantine;Frankish | |
| Isaac Komnenos Byzantine c. 1155 1196 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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