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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5694 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting 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): 3.1 Weight (g): 4.35 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G1474, by exchange with Dr. Protonotarios, previously A. H. Baldwin, 30th September 1968. |
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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, beardless, on l., being crowned by Virgin; emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum-headed sceptre, and in l. hand anexikakia; Virgin wears tunic and maphorion. Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) O / ЄM / MA / Nȣ / HΛ (Emmanuel) Reverse: MANUHΛ ΔЄC... (Manouel, despot) M Θ (Mother of God) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.2b.2
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3 Related People | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Manouel I Komnenos Byzantine 1118 1180 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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