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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5669 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): 2.8 Weight (g): 4.38 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G0050, A. H. Baldwin, August 1948. |
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Description: Obverse: Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne with back; holds Gospels in l. hand; pellet in each limb of nimbus cross. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l., crowned by Virgin; emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand globus cruciger; Virgin wears tunic and maphorion. Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) KЄ hO HΘ ЄI (Lord, assist) Reverse: IW / ...ЄC… (John, despot) ΘV XC (Mother of God) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.7a.2 Notes: Nomina sacra for Virgin and Christ appear to be confused. |
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3 Related People | |
| John II Komnenos Byzantine c. 1262 1297 | |
| Thessalonica | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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