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ID number: BIRBI-B6119 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Theodore Komnenos Doukas; Thessalonica Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1227-1230 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.3 Weight (g): 4.18 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 6233. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ Emmanuel, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in l. hand. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, paneled loros of simplified type and sagion; holds in r. hand labarum-headed sceptre, and in l. hand globus surmounted by patriarchal cross; Manus Dei in upper r. field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: …o...Δ…C KOM NH NO C Δ…K… (Theodore Komnenos Doukas)
Bibliography: DOC IV.2.10a.2
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