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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5696 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R. Maker: Manouel I; Constantinople Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1143-1180 Metal: Electrum Diameter (cm): 3.35 Weight (g): 4.13 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G1476, ex. James R. Stewart, 1955, previously ex. Kolocasides Collection. |
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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; pellet in each limb of nimbus cross. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor, bearded, on l., and of Virgin nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft at the base of which a small globe; emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds anexikakia in r. hand; Virgin wears tunic and maphorion. Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: MANȣHΛ ΔCCΠ… (Manouel, despot) M ΘV (Mother of God) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.3a.2
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4 Related People | |
| Stewart, James R. Australian 03 Jul 1913 06 Feb 1962 | |
| Manouel I Komnenos Byzantine 1118 1180 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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