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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B4929 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Nikephoros II; Constantinople Denomination: Nomisma Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 963-969 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.20 Weight (g): 4.42 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0004. Glendining (Number 32), 7th September 1950. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, holding in l. hand bejewelled book. Reverse: Theotokos on l. facing, wearing tunic and maphorion, with M and Θ to either side of her, to r. facing bust of Nikephoros, bearded, wearing loros and crown topped with cross. Both holding long patriarchal cross between them, Theotokos with r. hand placed above Nikephoros' r. hand. Inscriptions: Obverse: + IhS XIS RCX RЄCNANTIhM (Jesus Christ, King of Kings). Reverse: + ΘЄOTOC' b'HΘ' nICHF'dЄSP (Mother of God aid Nikephoros, Lord). Bibliography: DOC III.2 4
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| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Nikephoros II Byzantine 969 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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