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ID number:  BIRBI-B5830
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. C. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey
Maker:  Andronikos I; Constantinople
Denomination:  Hyperpyron Nomisma
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  1183-1185
Metal:  Gold
Diameter (cm):  3.1
Weight (g):  4.44
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 2172, Spink, 1942.
BIRBI-B5830.jpg

Description:  Obverse: Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne with back; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l., crowned by Christ, bearded and nimbate; emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece, paneled loros and sagion; holds in r. hand labarum-headed sceptre, and in l. hand globus cruciger; Christ, wearing tunic and kolobion, holds Gosepls in l. hand.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: ИΓΓIKOC ΔЄCΠOTHC (Andronikos, despot) IC XC (Jesus Christ)

Bibliography:  DOC IV.1.1.4

Notes:  Double-struck on obverse.

3 Related People

Andronikos I Komnenos
Byzantine

1185
Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


Haines_Geoffrey-T.jpg
Haines, Geoffrey Colton
British
1899
1981-09-14
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