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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5459 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Michael VII; Constantinople Denomination: Histamenon Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1071-1078 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.7 Weight (g): 4.29 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G0366, A. H. Baldwin, October 1949. |
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Description: Obverse: Christ seated on square-backed throne (Type II b) facing, bearded, with cross nimbus having pellet in each arm, wearing tunic and himation; r. hand raised in blessing, l. hand holding book with ornamentation (:·:); double border of dots. Reverse: Bust facing, bearded, wearing modified loros with collar-piece and crown with cross and pendilia; in r. hand labarum-headed sceptre decorated with :·: , in l. hand globus cruciger with cross of four pellet ·:·; double border of dots. Inscriptions: Obverse: IC (Jesus) Reverse: +MIX AHΛ RACIΛOΔ (Michael Doukas, emperor) Bibliography: DOC III.2.1.3 Notes: Double struck on obverse; die drag on reverse. |
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3 Related People | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Michael VII Doukas Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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