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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.
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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.

3 Related People

Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Latin Empire
Western European


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