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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5925 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Alexios III Angelos; Constantine I; Constantinople Denomination: Hyperpyron Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1195-1203 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.8 Weight (g): 4.23 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G0076. A. H. Baldwin, April 1951, exchanged. |
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Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of Christ, bearded and nimbate, standing on dais, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds Gospels in l. hand, · in each limb of nimbus cross. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l. and of St. Constantine nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft ending in a small globule; emperor wears stemma, divitision, and chlamys; holds anexikakia in r. hand; saint wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type. Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) +KЄRO HΘЄI (Lord assist) Reverse: AΛ...ΔCC (Alexios, despot) ·KWN… (Saint Constantine) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.1b.4
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4 Related People | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Alexios III Angelos Byzantine 1211 | |
| Constantine I Roman 272 337 | |
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