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ID number:  BIRBI-B5716
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Manouel I; Constantinople
Denomination:  Aspron Trachy Nomisma
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  1143-1180
Metal:  Billon
Diameter (cm):  3.05
Weight (g):  5.23
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 4615, Christie, 10th December 1963.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Christ, beradless and nimbate, weraing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in l. hand. Reverse: Bust of emperor, beardless, wearing stemma, divitision and chlamys; holds in r. hand labarum-headed sceptre, and in l. hand globus cruciger.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: MANȣ...ΔЄCΠ (Manouel, despot)

Bibliography:  DOC IV.1.10b.1

3 Related People

Manouel I Komnenos
Byzantine
1118
1180
Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
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