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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5781 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Nicosia 1920 Hoard Maker: Manouel I; Thessalonica Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1143-1180 Metal: Electrum Diameter (cm): 3.3 Weight (g): 4.20 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G1478, Spink, June 1963, from Nicosia, c.1920. |
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Description: Obverse: Virgin, nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne without back; holds beardless nimbate head of Christ on breast. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor bearded, on l., and of St. Demetrios, beardless and nimbate, holding between them labarum on long shaft; emperor wears stemma, divitision and chlamys; holds anexikakia in r. hand; saint wears short military tunic and breastplate. Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: MANUH…ΔЄCΠO (Manouel, despot) ʘ / Δ… (Saint Demetrios) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.9.7
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| Nicosia 1920 Hoard | |
| Manouel I Komnenos Byzantine 1118 1180 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Thessalonica | |
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