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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B6058
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Constantine Asen; Trnovo
Denomination:  Aspron Trachy Nomisma
Place made:  Europe: Bulgaria, Veliko Trnovo
Culture:  Bulgarian
Date made:  1257-77
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  2.45
Weight (g):  2.45
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 6144.
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Description:  Obverse: Large cross. Reverse: Tsar seated upon throne without back, wearing stemma, divitision and jeweled loros of simplified type (?); holds in r. hand labarum-headed sceptre and in l. hand anexikakia; Manus Dei in upper r. field.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: None. Reverse: None Visible.

Bibliography:  DOC IV.2.2

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Whitting, Philip David
British
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Constantine Asen
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