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ID number:  BIRBI-B5373
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.; Syria 1957 Hoard
Maker:  Constantine X; Constantinople
Denomination:  Histamenon nomisma
Place made:  Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  1059-1067
Metal:  Gold
Diameter (cm):  2.75
Weight (g):  4.36
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 736. bt. A. H. Baldwin June 1958, from Syria in same group as 734 above.
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Description:  Obverse: Christ enthroned facing, holding gospels in l. hand. Reverse: Constantine standing facing wearing loros and cross crown with pendilia, holding globus cruciger in l. hand and labarum in r.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: + IhI XIΓ RCX RCINΛNThIm (Jesus Christ king of kings). Reverse: + KωN ... O ΔOuKIC (Constantine Emperor, the Doukid).

Bibliography:  DOC III.2 AV1b

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Constantinople
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Syria 1957 Hoard



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Whitting, Philip David
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1903
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Constantine X
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