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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5102 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Anonymous; Constantinople Denomination: Follis Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 976(?)-c.1030/35 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.75 Weight (g): 8.57 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 2275, Spink, 7th July 1953. |
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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; nomina sacra in left and right field. Reverse: None. Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ). Reverse: + IhꙄЧꙄ / XRIꙄTЧꙄ / ѦꙄILЄЧ' / ѦꙄILЄ' (Jesus Christ, King of Kings). Bibliography: DOC III.2.A2.52 Notes: The variety of this coin makes it DOC Variant 52, which are classed as contemporary counterfeits, though this rule seems arbitrary and retrospective to us. |
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| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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