Byzantine coin – HCR53154

Obverse

Inscription:

IC XC

Design:

Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated on throne without back; holds Gospels in left hand

Reverse

Inscription:

ΘV, ΔΕCΠ

Design:

Full-length figure of emperor, bearded, crowned by Virgin nimbate. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and loros; holds labarum-headed sceptre in right hand, globus cruciger in left. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion

Information

Period

Byzantine

Category

Middle Byzantine coin

Group

Authority

Byzantium: empire

Person

Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor, 1143 - 1180

Dating

1167-1183?

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denomination

Billon trachy

Metal

billon

Technique

struck

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

4.44

Axis

Diameter (mm)

Acquisition method

purchase ('bought')

Acquisition date

1969

Source

CM Kraay

Reference

M.F. Hendy - 1999 - Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection. Volume Four Alexius I to Michael VIII 1081-1261 : 13b

Contributors to this coin record

jmairat, nristovska, jbaker