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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5832 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Andronikos I; Constantinople Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1183-1185 Metal: Electrum Diameter (cm): 3.2 Weight (g): 4.58 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G430, Spink, July 1953. |
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Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of Virgin nimbate and orans, wearing tunic and maphorion, standing on dais; beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. Full-length figure of emperor on l., crowned by Christ, bearded and nimbate; emperor wears stemma, divitision and chlamys; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. hand anexikakia; Christ, wearing tunic and kolobion, holds Gospels in l. hand; small cross between labarum shaft and body. Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) ΘKЄRO HΘЄI (Mother of God, aid) Reverse: AΝΔΡΟΝ... ΔЄCΠTH (Andronikos, despot) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.2a.1
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3 Related People | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Andronikos I Komnenos Byzantine 1185 | |
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