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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B6093 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Alexios III Angelos; Constantinople Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1221-1254 Metal: Billon Diameter (cm): 3.2 Weight (g): 3.73 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4748. ex. D. Wood Collection, December 1967. |
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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. and of St. Constantine, nimbate, holding between them labarum surmounting triangular decoration, on long shaft; emperor and saint wear stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; emperor and saint hold cross topped sceptre. Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: AΛЄΞI·CΔ (Alexios, despot) Ꙩ… (Saint Constantine) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.2d.2
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| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Alexios III Angelos Byzantine 1211 | |
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