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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5911 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): 2.85 Weight (g): 2.66 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3581. Seaby, December 1948, 'from Cyprus'. |
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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: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: ICA / A / K Δ / Є / Π / T… (Isaac, despot) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.3e.1 Notes: Double struck on reverse. |
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| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Isaac II Angelos Byzantine 1156 1204 | |
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