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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B6089 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: John III Doukas Vatatzes; Magnesia Denomination: Hyperpyron Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Manisa Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1232-54? Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.85 Weight (g): 3.88 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G440. A. H. Baldwin, 19th September 1953. |
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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 XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: IW/...ЄC… (John, despot) T…/_/Π…/Φ… (Purple-born) MP ΘV (Mother of God) Bibliography: DOC IV.2.8a
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| John III Doukas Vatatzes Byzantine c. 1192 1254 | |
| Magnesia Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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