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Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-B5908 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Isaac II; Constantinople Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1185-1195 Metal: Billon Diameter (cm): 2.7 Weight (g): 3.29 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 6074. Seaby, December 1948. |
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Description: Obverse: Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne with back; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, jeweled loros of simplified type and sagion; holds in r. hand cross-topped sceptre and in l. hand anexikakia; Manus Dei in upper r. field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ΘV (of God) Reverse: ...ΔЄC / ΠT (despot)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.3g.1
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