aspron trachy / Billon / Copper
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 1991.02.1310
- Object Name
- aspron trachy
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Coins
- Weight
- 5.25
- Quantity
- 1
- Pierced
- 161
- Inscribed
- 161
- Artifact Obverse Inscription
- IC XC
- Artifact Reverse Inscription
- MANUHΛ [ΔECΠOT], around.
- Above virgin M, in field right
- Verbatim Date
- 1167-1183? AD
- Production Site
- 140
- Denomination
- 4100
- Authority
- 4761
- Mint
- 2922
- Overstruck
- 161
- Countermark
- 161
- Pierced
- 161
- Coin Obverse Description
- Christ bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated facing upon throne without back; in left hand book of Gospels; right hand raised in benediction; pellet in each limb of nimbus cross. Double border of dots.
- Coin Obverse Inscription
- IC XC
- Coin Reverse Description
- Full-length figure of Manuel, bearded, standing facing, on left; on right, Virgin nimbate, standing facing, crowning emperor with right, left hand raised in bebediction. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jewelled loros of simplified type; holds in right hand labarum-headed sceptre and in left, globus crucifer; Virgin wears tunic and maphorion; Emperor’s loros waist has 5 pellets, with one jewel on loros between waist and collarpiece, which has three jewels
- Inscription Obverse Text
- IC XC
- Publication Title
- Description générale des monnaies byzantines frapées sous les empereurs d'Orient depuis Arcadius jusqu'à la prise de Constantinople par Mahomet II, Vol. 1
- Catalogue of the imperial Byzantine coins in the British Museum, Vol. 2
- Byzantine Coins
- Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, Vol. 4: Alexius I to Michael VIII, 1081-1261
- Monnaies byzantines et d'autres pays contemporaines a l'époque byzantine, ... la plus riche et la plus vaste collection privée. La vente privée aux enchères aura lieu le 9 décembre 1930 ...
- Publication Author
- Sabatier, Justin and Cohen, Henry
- Wroth, Warwick
- Grierson, Philip
- Bellinger, Alfred R., Grierson, Philip and Hendry, Michael F.
- Ratto, Rodolfo
- Publication Year
- 1862
- 1908
- 1982
- 1966-2006
- 1959 (reprint)
- Type Category
- 24
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2272 x 1704
- File Size
- 159 KB
- Record
- 1991.02.1310
- Link to this Item
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"aspron trachy; Billon; Copper." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1991.02.1310/1991_02_1310p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 27, 2024.