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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5628 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: 1152-1167? Metal: Electrum Diameter (cm): 3.5 Weight (g): 4.09 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G0057, ex, James R. Stewart, 30th January 1968, previously ex. Kolokasides, Nicosia, 1956. |
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Description: Obverse: Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; r. hand raised in benediction, holds Gospels in l. hand. Pellet in each limb of cross. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor, bearded, on l., and of Virgin nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds anexikakia in r. hand. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion. Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: ...Λ (Manouel) M ΘV (Mother of God) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.3a.Var.
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4 Related People | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Stewart, James R. Australian 03 Jul 1913 06 Feb 1962 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Manouel I Komnenos Byzantine 1118 1180 | |
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