Description
Collection Number: WC 10923
Object Number:
Dates: 1391 - 1425
Denomination: Half stavrata
Dimensions: 24.56mm
Weight: 3.82g
Authority: John VII
Languages: Greek
Obverse Type: Bust of Christ, facing, holding right hand before him in gesture of benediction, Gospel book in left, IC XC (horizontal line above) and sometimes siglon in field, border of 14 pellets; CΠ in obverse field
Obverse Legend:
I(C) - II
Obverse Inscription Languages: Greek
Obverse Mintmarks:
CΠ
Obverse Inscription Comment: Horizontal line above IC XC
Reverse Type: +IΩNICBCIΛVCOΠΛOΛOГOC; Bust of emperor facing, nimbate, • (pellet) in left and right fields
Reverse Legend:
+I(/)[NICB]CIΛ(F)VCOГ[ΛOΛ]OF(OC)
Reverse Inscription Languages: Greek
Reverse Mintmarks:
•/•
Reverse Inscription Comments: Blundered letters
Bibliography
DOC V n. 1331, Plate 71
cf. BMC Byz vol. 2 p. 640 n. 1 ff, Plate LXXVII, 1 (John VIII)
Ratto p. 120 n. 2269, Plate LVI (John VIII)
Sabatier p. n. 3, Plate
PCPC 346
LPC --
Sommer p. 440 n. 89.1
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