aspron trachy / Billon / Copper

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Record Details

Object Identifier
1991.02.1310
Object Name
aspron trachy
Object Type
Coins
Materials
Billon
Copper
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

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2272 x 1704
File Size
159 KB
Record
1991.02.1310
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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.
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