Description
Collection Number: WC 10989
Object Number:
Dates: 1071 - 1078
Denomination: Nomisma Histamenon
Dimensions: 29.87mm
Weight: 4.42g
Authority: Michael VII
Languages: Greek
Obverse Type: No inscription. Bust of Christ (Type Vf) facing, with long pointed beard, with cross nimbus with or with central square (instead of a pellet) in arms; wearing tunic and himation; right hand raised before breast in blessing, left holds book with on cover, from beneath. Double border of dots
Obverse Legend:
IC - XC
Obverse Inscription Languages: N/A
Obverse Mintmarks:
N/A
Obverse Inscription Comment: Horizontal line above IC XC
Reverse Type: +IX H Λ RCIΛOΔ; Bust facing, bearded, wearing modified loros with collar-piece and crown with cross and pendilia. In right hand, labarum-headed sceptre ornamented with inside a (square) and possibly a • (pellet) in the shaft, in left globus cruciger with solid cross. Double border of dots
Reverse Legend:
+IX HΛ RΛCIΛ
Reverse Inscription Languages: Greek
Reverse Mintmarks:
N/A
Reverse Inscription Comments: N/A
Bibliography
DOC III pp. 805-806 n.2d8 Plate LXVI
BNP pp. 654-655 nn. 5-10, Plate XC-XCI
BMC Byz vol. 2 pp. 529-530 nn. 5-10, Plate LXII,8-9
Ratto p. 105 nn. 2032-2034, Plate XLVIII
Sabatier p. n. 1, Plate LI,4
Sommer p. 321 n. 55.2
Sear 1868