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ID number:  BIRBI-B5850
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Isaac Komnenos; Cyprus
Denomination:  Aspron Trachy Nomisma
Place made:  Cyprus
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  1185-1191
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.9
Weight (g):  3.57
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 3590. Hall, November 1950.
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Description:  Obverse: Beardless, nimbate bust of Christ Emmanuel, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in l. hand; :·: in each limb of nimbus cross. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, skaramangion or divitision and sagion; holds in r. hand cross-topped sceptre, and in l. hand anexikakia; Manus Dei in upper r. field.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: …Nȣ / HΛ (Emmanuel) Reverse: ...ΔЄCΠTH (despot)

Bibliography:  DOC IV.1.3.1

Notes:  Flattened.

3 Related People

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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Isaac Komnenos
Byzantine
c. 1155
1196
Cyprus
Byzantine;Frankish


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