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ID number: BIRBI-B5339 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constantine IX; Constantinople Denomination: Nomisma Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1042-1055 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 3.00 Weight (g): 4.38 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0019. A. H. Baldwin, December 1949. |

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Description: Obverse: Christ nimbate seated on throne with curved back, wearing tunic and with gospels in l. hand. Reverse: Half figure of Constantine facing, wearing loros and cross crown with pendilia, holding a long leaved cross in r. hand and a globus cruciger with upturned crescent in l. hand.
Inscriptions: Obverse: + IhS XS KEX RCSNANTIΛm (Jesus Christ King of Kings). Reverse: + CωnST ANTh bASILЄЧS RM (Constantine Emperor of the Romans).
Bibliography: DOC III.2 pl. LVIII AV1b
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