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ID number: BIRBI-B5865 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Isaac II; Constantinople Denomination: Hyperpyron Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1185-1195 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.9 Weight (g): 4.32 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G0072. A. H. Baldwin, April 1951. |

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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., and of archangel Michael, beardless and nimbate, holding between them partially sheathed sword, point downward; Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collarpiece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand cross-topped sceptre; Archangel wears short military tunic, breastplate and sagion.
Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: ICAAK IOCΔЄCΠO (Isaac, despot) Reverse: X / AP X / MI (Archangel Michael)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.1b.2
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