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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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