coin / Gold
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 1991.02.0949
- Object Name
- coin
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Coins
- Materials
- Gold
- Length
- ;
- Width
- ;
- Height
- ;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- 4.36;5.42 g
- Quantity
- 1
- Inscribed
- no
- Artifact Obverse Inscription
- +CWnST AnTn bASILEUSRM
- Artifact Reverse Inscription
- +IhSXISREX REgNANTIhM
- Verbatim Date
- 1042-1055 AD
- Denomination
- histamenon_nomisma
- Authority
- Constantine_IX_Monomachus
- Mint
- Constantinople
- Countermark
- no
- Coin Obverse Description
- Bust of Constantine IX, bearded, facing; wears crown with cross, and robe with broad jewelled scarf; in left hand, globus with patriarchal cross, in right, sceptre surmounted by cross and with tendril-ornament and two smaller crosses on the shaft. Three borders of dots.
- Coin Obverse Inscription
- +CWnST AnTn bASILEUSRM
- Coin Reverse Description
- Christ, bearded, seated facing on throne with curved arms; wears tunic, mantle and nimbus cr.; right hand in benediction, left holds book of Gospels with :.: on cover. Three borders of dots.
- Inscription Obverse Text
- +CWnST AnTn bASILEUSRM
- Condition Notes
- needs exhibition tag removed
- Exhibition Title
- Vaults of Heaven: Visions of Byzantium
- Exhibition Curator
- Talalay, Lauren
- Exhibition Year
- 2010
- Type Category
- Numismatic
Technical Details
- Record
- 1991.02.0949
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1991.02.0949/dscn6363.jpg
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"coin; Gold." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1991.02.0949/dscn6363.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
