| Viewing Record 1 of 1 |
|
Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5833 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: Billon Diameter (cm): 3.1 Weight (g): 4.41 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3562. |
|
|
Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, standing on dais; 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 and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum-headed sceptre, and in l. hand globus cruciger; Christ wearing tunic and kolobion, holds Gospels in l. hand. Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: ANΔPO NK (Andronikos) IC X (Jesus Christ) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.3a.12
|
|
3 Related People | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Andronikos I Komnenos Byzantine 1185 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Viewing Record 1 of 1 |