Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-B5300 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: c.1080-85 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.55 Weight (g): 4.39 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5545, ex. Tchalikian, September 1967. |

|
Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ (Type VIIIe) facing, bearded. Reverse: Latin cross with large pellet and two small pellets at each extremity. Beneath the cross, large crescent. To l. and r., above and below, large pellets surrounded by small pellets.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None visible. Reverse: None.
Bibliography: DOC III.2.J.12
Notes: Overstruck on unidentified type.
|