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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B6106 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Manouel I Komnenos; Constantinople Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1143-1180 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 3.2 Weight (g): 2.85 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4948. Leu, June 1965. |
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Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of Christ, standing on dais, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds Gospels in l. hand; to l. and r. in field a star. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor and of Saint Demetrios, beardless and nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft; emperor wears stemma, divitision, jeweled loros of simplified type and sagion; holds in r. hand sword; Saint wears short military tunic and breastplate; holds sheathed sword in l. hand. Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: ΔЄ… (Demetrios) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.4b.Var. Notes: This coin has been assigned to Manouel I Komnenos; however, a number of features strongly suggest it is an unpublished type from the Empire of Thessalonica. |
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| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Manouel I Komnenos Byzantine 1118 1180 | |
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