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Coin: 6338

Format: Coin
Issue: 3769

Details

Notes

Obverse: IC X reverse: [inscription obscure]

Object Type

coin

Denomination

Metal

Gold

Region

State

City

Ruler

John III Ducas (1221 to 1254)

Date

Obverse Figure Description

Christ, seated, facing, IC XC in field. Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; right hand raised in benediction, holds Gospels in left. Three pellets to left above throne

Reverse Figure Description

Virgin crowning emperor, standing, facing, MP θV in upper right field. Full-length figure of emperor on left, crowned by Virgin nimbate. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in right hand labarum on long shaft, and in left, anexikakia. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion

Reverse Legend

IW ΔWCΠOTH TW (TW ligatured) ΠOPΦVPOΓENNHTW (usually abbreviated), in two columnar groups

Citations

References

Coin Description

Size: 29 in mm
Die Axis: 6
Weight: 4.3 in grams
Accession: Accession number: 352, 2008-01-15, A. H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd.
Shape: scyphate
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