1951.31.4.1208: Solidus of Michael III, Constantinople
Coins
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1951.31.4.1208
- People
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Michael III, Byzantine (r. 842 - 867)
- Title
- Solidus of Michael III, Constantinople
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 842-843 (?) CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Constantinople (Thrace)
- Period
- Byzantine period, Early
- Culture
- Byzantine
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/197578
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gold
- Metal
- AV
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 4.49 g
- Die Axis
- 7
- Denomination
- solidus
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Obverse Inscription: +ThetaEOdeltaORAdeltaESPVNsA
- Reverse Inscription: • MIXAHLS ThetaECLA
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- DOC 3.1, 1a.1 (p. 461)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore
- Accession Year
- 1951
- Object Number
- 1951.31.4.1208
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
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Obv.: Bust facing, wearing loros and crown with pendilia and three pinnacles with central cross. In r. hand, globus surmounted by patriarchal cross; in l., cross scepter. Trace of overstriking to r.
Rev.: Two busts facing, Michael on l., wearing loros and crown with cross, holding in r. hand gl. cr.; Thecla on r., larger, wearing loros and crown with pendilia, pinnacles, and cross, holding in r. hand long patriarchal cross.
Publication History
- Alfred R. Bellinger, ed., Catalogue of Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection (Washington, D.C, 1992), vol. 3, part 1, 461, cat. 1a.1, pl. 28
- Ioli Kalavrezou, Byzantine Women and Their World, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2003), p. 95/figs. 36a, 36b
Exhibition History
- Byzantine Women and Their World, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/25/2002 - 04/28/2003
Verification Level
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