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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5363 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Michael VI; Constantinople Denomination: Histamenon Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1056-1057 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.5 Weight (g): 4.39 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G1713, Leu, 22nd June 1968. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ Pantocrator (Type VIIIc) facing, bearded, with cross nimbus having · in arms, wearing tunic and himation; r. hand raised in blessing, l. hand holds book; double border of dots. Reverse: To l., half-figure of emperor facing, bearded, wearing jeweled chlamys, with end draped over l. arm, and crown with cross and pendilia, holding r. hand to breast and globus cruciger in l. hand; to r. half-figure of Virgin facing, wearing tunic and maphorion, holding l. hand before her and crowning emperor with r. hand; between their heads nomina sacra; double border of dots. Inscriptions: Obverse: +IHiXISRCXRESNANTIhm (Jesus Christ, King of Kings) Reverse: +mIXЄ HL AV ΓOCRAΓ (Michael, autocrat) Bibliography: DOC.III.2.1b.2
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3 Related People | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Michael VI Byzantine | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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