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Coin: 19297

Format: Coin
Numismatic Collection: Donald
Issue: 11488

Details

Notes

Likely imitative. Obverse image is crude
Half coin only. Uncertain identification

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John III Ducas (1221 to 1254)

Date

Obverse Figure Description

Christ Emmanuel, standing, facing, Bust of Christ Emmanuel, beardless and nibate, wearing tunic and kolobion; scroll in left hand

Obverse Legend

IC XC O EMMANOHΛ, in two columnar groups

Reverse Figure Description

St. Tryphon, standing, facing, Full-length figure of emperor on left, and of St. Tryphon, beardless and nimbate, holding between them long shaft at the head of which is lys, and at base of which small globe. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, jeweled loros of simplified type, and sagion; holds labarum on long shaft in right hand. Saint wears short military tunic, breastplate, and sagion; hold scepter with triple head in left hand

Reverse Legend

θEOΔWPOC ΔECΠOTHC O ΔOKAC O AΓIOC TPVΦWΝ, in two columnar groups

Citations

DOC 4, Michael Hendy, Alexius I to Michael VIII, 1081-1261, 1999 Vol. 4, Part 2 Theodore I, 12 (Recte John III)

References

DOC 4

Coin Description

Size: 20 in mm
Die Axis: 6
Weight: 1.81 in grams
Accession: Accession number: 719, 2017-01-21, Peter Donald
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