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Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-B5749 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R. Maker: Manouel I; Constantinople Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1143-1180 Metal: Billon Diameter (cm): 3.05 Weight (g): 3.99 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5701, ex. James R. Stewart, 30th January 1968, previously A. H. Baldwin, 1946. |
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Description: Obverse: Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; holds Gospels in l. hand; pellet in each limb of nimbus cross. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor, bearded, on l., crowned by Virgin nimbate; emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum-headed sceptre and in l. hand globus cruciger; Virgin wears tunic and maphorion.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IC (Jesus) Reverse: ΔЄ… (despot) M ΘV (Mother of God)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.13i.2
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