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Byzantine coin – HCR61198

Obverse

Inscription:

+IhSXΓSREXREGNΛNTIhM

Design:

Bust of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and himation; right hand raised in blessing, left clasps Gospels to breast

Reverse

Inscription:

+ΘEOTOC bOHΘ'IWδΕSP', MΘ

Design:

Busts of emperor and the Virgin, emperor holding patriarchal cross between them, the Virgin touching emperor's crown with right hand. Emperor wears crown with cross and pendilia, imperial tunic, and loros; the Virgin is nimbate, and wears tunic and maphorion. Manus Dei above emperor

Information

Period

Byzantine

Category

Middle Byzantine coin

Group

Authority

Byzantium: empire

Person

John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor, 969-976

Dating

969-976

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denomination

tetarteron

Metal

gold

Technique

struck

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

3.98

Diameter (mm)

19.5

Acquisition method

deposit

Acquisition date

1934

Source

Keble College

holed

Reference

P. Grierson - 1973 - Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks collection and the Whittemore collection. Volume Three Part II. Basil I to Nicephorus III (867-1081) : 6a

Contributors to this coin record

jmairat, nristovska, jbaker