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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-YH0025 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Yenimahalle Hoard Maker: Latin Empire; Thessalonica Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Frankish Date made: 1204-1261 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.25 Weight (g): 0.97 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: From Yenimahalle Hoard, 1967, through Whitting. See Hendy 1969 'Coinage and Money' p.401 |
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Description: Obverse: Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunnic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; r. hand raised in benediction, holds Gospels in l. hand; Cross above cushion of throne. Reverse: Full-length figures of Saints Helena (l.) and Constantine (r.), holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft and step; both wear stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; St. Helena holds jeweled sceptre, st Constantine holds cross-topped sceptre. Inscriptions: Obverse: IC (Jesus) Reverse: None Visible. Bibliography: DOC IV.2.26.8 Notes: Part of coin removed and sent for unspecified metallurgic testing at 'Goldsmith's coin assay' in July 1966. |
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| Thessalonica | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Yenimahalle Hoard | |
| Latin Empire Western European | |
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