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Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-B6127 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R. Maker: John Komnenos Doukas; Thessalonica Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1237-42? Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3 Weight (g): 4.54 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 6959. ex. James R. Stewart Collection, 30th January 1968, previously A. H. Baldwin, 1947. |
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Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of Saint Theodore, bearded and nimbate, wearing short military tunic, breastplate and sagion; holds in r. hand spear, and in l. hand shield; lys to l. and r. of figure. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l. crowned by Saint Demetrios, beardless and nimbate; emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum-headed sceptre, and in l. hand anexikakia; Saint wears short military tunic, breastplate and sagion; holds sword, point resting on ground, in l. hand; star in upper centre field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: Ꙩ ΘЄ OΔO… (Saint Theodore) Reverse: None Visible.
Bibliography: DOC IV.2.2.3
Notes: Cast?
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