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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5666 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: John II; Thessalonica Denomination: Hyperpyron Nomisma Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1118-1143 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.95 Weight (g): 4.25 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G0056, A. H. Baldwin, April 1951. |
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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: IW ΔCCΠΟΤΗC (John, despot) ΘU ([Mother] of God) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.4.3 Notes: Russian Cross graffitied on reverse at 90 degrees. |
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3 Related People | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Thessalonica | |
| John II Komnenos Byzantine c. 1262 1297 | |
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