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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B6194 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Lord Grantley Maker: Andronikos II Palaiologos; Constantinople Denomination: Hyperpyron Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1282-1328 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.65 Weight (g): 3.67 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G0384. Glendining, 27th May 1952, ex. Grantley Collection. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Virgin, nimbate and orans, within the walls of Constantinople. Reverse: Full-length figure of Christ standing, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, holds in l. hand Gospels and blesses emperor with r. hand; emperor, bearded, wears stemma, collar-piece and skaramangion, and crouches in proskynesis to l. of Christ. Inscriptions: Obverse: None. Reverse: ANΔII/INIKOOC/ΔЄCΠOT/ICNM/IΓ (Andronikos, despot, Palaiologos) Bibliography: DOC V.229-234 Notes: Recut die? |
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| Lord Grantley British 01 Oct 1855 05 Aug 1943 | |
| Andronikos II Palaiologos Byzantine 1259 1332 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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