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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5043 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Lord Grantley Maker: Anonymous; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 976(?)-c.1030/35 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.55 Weight (g): 17.70 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3353, A. H. Baldwin, September 1968, ex. Cecil King Collection, previously ex. Grantley Collection. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ (Type VIIb) facing, bearded, with nimbus; cross with : in each arm, wearing tunic and himation; right hand raised in blessing in sling of cloak, left hand holding book with ornamentation (·); nomina sacra in left and right field. Reverse: +-X-+ above and below text. Inscriptions: Obverse: ЄMMANOVHΛ (Emmanuel) IC XC (Jesus Christ). Reverse: + IhSЧS / XRISTЧS / bѦSILЄЧ' / bѦSILЄ' (Jesus Christ, King of Kings). Bibliography: DOC III.2.A2.11.2
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3 Related People | |
| Lord Grantley British 01 Oct 1855 05 Aug 1943 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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