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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5868 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: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1185-1195 Metal: Electrum Diameter (cm): 2.8 Weight (g): 3.46 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G924. A. H. Baldwin, August 1960. |
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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., crowned by archangel Michael, beardless and nimbate; Emperor wears stemma, divitision and chlamys; holds in r. hand cross-topped sceptre and in l. hand anexikakia; Archangel wears short military tunic, breastplate and sagion; holds jeweled sceptre in l. hand. Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: ICAA...CΔ (Isaac, despot) O X M (Archangel Michael) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.2c.5
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| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Isaac II Angelos Byzantine 1156 1204 | |
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