WC 1293

Description

Collection Number: WC 1293
Object Number:
Dates: 1071 - 1078
Denomination: Nomisma Histamenon
Dimensions: 29.00mm
Weight: 4.34g
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:

Anepigraphic

Obverse Inscription Languages: N/A
Obverse Mintmarks:

N/A

Obverse Inscription Comment: N/A

Reverse Type: +IX H Λ RCIΛOΔ; 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.2d var., Plate LXVI

BNP pp. 654-655 nn. 5-10, Plate XC-XCI

BMC Byz vol. 2 pp. 529-560 nn. 2-10, Plate LXII,8-9

Ratto p. 105 nn. 2032-2034, Plate XLVIII

Sabatier n. 1, Plate L1,4

Sommer p. 321 n. 55.2

Sear 1868

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