Description
Collection Number: WC 14013
Object Number:
Dates: 1167 - 1183
Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma
Dimensions: 28.48mm
Weight: 4.68g
Authority: Manuel I Comnenus
Mint: ThessalonicaThessaloniki
Languages: Greek
Obverse Type: IC XC (horizontal line above) in field; Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; holds Gospels in left hand. Pellet in each limb of nimbus cross
Obverse Legend:
(IC - XC)
Obverse Inscription Languages: Greek
Obverse Mintmarks:
- []
Obverse Inscription Comment: Horizontal line above IC XC
Reverse Type: MΛNHΛ - ΔC ΠOT; - ΘV or M -ΘV (with horizontal line above) in upper field. Full length figure of emperor, bearded, on left, crowned by Virgin nimbate. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jewelled loros of simplified type; holds in right hand labarum headed sceptre, and in left, globus cruciger. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion
Reverse Legend:
[MΛNHΛ - ΔCΠOT]
M -Θ[V]
Reverse Inscription Languages: Greek
Reverse Mintmarks:
N/A
Reverse Inscription Comments: Horizontal line above M θV
Bibliography
DOC IV pp. 317-320 n. 13f, Plate XV
BNP p. 711 nn. 3-4, Plate XCIX
BMC Byz vol. 2 pp. 575 nn. 40-51, Plate LXX,4
Ratto pp. 111-112 n. 2127-2130, Plate LII
Sabatier pp. 209-210 n. 15, Plate LVI,2
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