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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B6082
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  G. C. Haines Collection
Collector:  Haines, Geoffrey Colton
Maker:  John III Doukas Vatatzes; Magnesia
Denomination:  Hyperpyron Nomisma
Place made:  Eurasia: Manisa
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  1232-54?
Metal:  Gold
Diameter (cm):  2.55
Weight (g):  4.39
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Haines 1945, Seaby, 1937.
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Description:  Obverse: Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; r. hand raised in benediction, holds Gospels in l. hand. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l. crowned by Virgin nimbate; emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. hand anexikakia; Virgin wears tunic and maphorion.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: IC X (Jesus Christ) Reverse: …W / ΔЄ / ...Π· / …H (John, despot) + / _ / L / Π… (purple-born)

Bibliography:  DOC IV.2.4b

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Magnesia
Byzantine


John III Doukas Vatatzes
Byzantine
c. 1192
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