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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5978 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. 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): 2.96 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 1456. from Arta, 1938. |
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Description: Obverse: Three-quarter-length figure of Virgin nimbate, orans, wearing tunic and maphorion. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l., and of St. George, beardless and nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft; Emperor wears stemma, divitision and chlamys; Saint wears short military tunic, breastplate and sagion; holds sword in l. hand, point resting on ground. Inscriptions: Obverse: MP (Mother) Reverse: IW / Δ / II / Π / T (John, despot) O Γ (Saint George) Bibliography: DOC IV.2.14.3
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| Latin Empire Western European | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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