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Byzantine coin – HCR98387

Obverse

Inscription:

MP | Θ

Design:

Half-length figure of Virgin nimbate and orans, wearing tunic and maphorion, within the walls of Constantinople with six towers. Caption to the left and right of Virgin, above hands. Sigla in lower left and right field ***Siglon DOC, p. 132, no. 7 (var)***

Reverse

Inscription:

ANΔPO / NIKOCE / NXW . / . OΠPOC / . . HΛE / VKOO / IC ?, X

Design:

On the right, full-length figure of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and himation, holding Gospel in right hand. On the left, emperor crouching in proskynesis towards the right, bearded and nimbate, wearing hemispherical crown, imperial tunic (divetesion/sakkos) and loros/diadema. Legend above and to the left of the emperor's figure

Information

Period

Byzantine

Category

Late Byzantine gold coin

Group

Authority

Byzantium: empire

Person

Andronikos II, Byzantine emperor, 1282-1328

Dating

1282-1294

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denomination

hyperpyron

Metal

gold

Technique

struck

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

4.1

Diameter (mm)

24

Acquisition method

purchase ('bought')

Acquisition date

2001

Source

Simon Bendall

Reference

S. Bendall and P.J. Donald - 1979 - The Later Palaiologan Coinage : p. 34, no. 1

Reference

S. Bendall - 1984 - Sigla on Palaeologan hyperpyra : p. 173, siglon 7 (var)

Reference

S. Bendall - 1988 - A Private Collection of Palaeologan Coins : p. 28, siglon 7 (var), and p. 29, no. 91B

Reference

P. Grierson - 1999 - Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks collection and the Whittemore collection. Volume Five. Michael VIII to Constantine XI 1258-1453 : pp. 130-131, class I-a, and p. 132, siglon 7 (var)

Reference

E. Lianta - 2009 - Late Byzantine Coins 1204-1453 in the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford : p. 221, no. 627

This specimen

Yes

Contributors to this coin record

jmairat, jbaker, nristovska