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ID number: BIRBI-B5620 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. C. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: John II; Constantinople Denomination: Hyperpyron Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1118-1143 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 3.15 Weight (g): 4.25 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 2612,ex. Charles Oman Collection, 1949. |

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Description: Obverse: Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; r. hand raised in benediction, holds Gospels in l. hand. Reverse: Half-length figure of emperor on l., and of Virgin, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and paneled loros of simplified type; holds anexikakia in r. hand. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion. Manus Dei in upper l. field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: +IWΔCCΠΟΤH (John, despot) ΘV MP (Mother of God)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.1a.4
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