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ID number: BIRBI-B5959 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R.; Lord Grantley Maker: Latin Empire; Constantinople Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Frankish Date made: 1204-1261 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.9 Weight (g): 3.93 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5680. ex. James R. Stewart Collection, 30th January 1968, previously ex. Grantley Collection. |
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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 wearing stemma, divitision and chlamys; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. hand anexikakia.
Inscriptions: Obverse: M Θ (Mother of God) Reverse: MAИNI...ΔCC… (Manouel, despot)
Bibliography: DOC IV.2.1.13
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