Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Your search has been limited to 3000 records. As your search has brought back a large number of records consider using the 'Advanced Search' feature which enables you to use more search terms to bring back a more accurate set of records.
Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-B5982 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Latin Empire; Constantinople Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Frankish Date made: 1204-1261 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.1 Weight (g): 2.90 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5832. Seaby, 1948. |
|
Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of Christ, standing on dais, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; r. hand raised in benediction, holds Gospels in l. hand; pellet in each limb of nimbus cross. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, short military tunic, breastplate and sagion; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: XC (Christ) Reverse: Π ȣ T (Purple-born)
Bibliography: DOC IV.2.15.5
Notes: Overstruck, reverse on obverse, on type 26, overstruck on type 33.
|
<< Viewing Record 1489 of 3000 >> |