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ID number: BIRBI-B5345 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Constantine IX; Constantinople Denomination: Histamenon Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1042-1055 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.75 Weight (g): 4.38 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G751, Dumbarton Oaks Duplicates, 27th November 1958. |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ Pantocrator (Type VIIIc) facing, bearded, with cross nimbus having crescent in each upper quarter, wearing tunic and himation; r. hand blessing, l. hand clasps book; triple pellet border. Reverse: Bust of emperor facing, bearded, wearing simplified loros, collar-piece, and crown with cross and pendilia, holding in r. hand sceptre surmounted by cross, in l. hand globus cruciger; triple pellet border.
Inscriptions: Obverse: +IhSXISREXIEGNANTIhM (Jesus Christ, king of kings) Reverse: +CωhSTATh bASILЄЧSRM (Constantine, emperor of the Romans)
Bibliography: DOC.III.2.3.13
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