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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5332 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R. Maker: Romanos III; Constantinople Denomination: Nomisma Place made: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1028-1034 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.50 Weight (g): 4.41 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0015. Previously James R. Stewart Collection, 30th January 1968, via A.H. Baldwin, 1946. |
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Description: Obverse: Christ enthroned facing on straight-backed throne, wearing tunic with r. hand raised in blessing and holding gospel on l. knee. Reverse: Romanos standing facing on l. bearded and wearing loros bordered by six pellets and crown topped with cross, with r. hand raised to chest and holding globus cruciger in l. hand, Theotokos on r. facing, wearing tunic and maphorion, r. hand raised up to Romanos's crown. Letters M and Θ above. Inscriptions: Obverse: + IhS XIS REX REGNANTIhM (Jesus Christ, King of Kings). Reverse: + ΘCЄ bOHΘ' RѠMAnѠ (Mother of God, aid Romanos). Bibliography: DOC III.2 1b
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4 Related People | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Romanos III Byzantine 968 1034 | |
| Stewart, James R. Australian 03 Jul 1913 06 Feb 1962 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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