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ID number: BIRBI-B5721 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 Weight (g): 3.56 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3550. |

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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, bearded, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, jeweled loros of simplified type and sagion; holds in r. hand cross-topped sceptre and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: ...ΔЄC… (despot)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.11a.4
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