- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1972.260
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- One Noble Coin
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 1377-1399
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/226376
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Gold
- Dimensions
- 3.5 cm diam. x 0.1 cm depth (1 3/8 x 1/16 in.)
7.79 g - Denomination
- noble
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: obverse, around perimeter: RICARD DI G R[EX ANGL Z FR DNS] HIBS [Z AQT] [=Richard by the grace of God King of England and France Lord of Ireland and Aquitaine]
- inscription: reverse, around perimeter: IHC AUTEM TRAN[SIE]NS PER MEDIU ILLORR IBAT [=But Jesus passing through their midst went his way]
- Provenance
- Frederick M. Watkins, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1972.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frederick M. Watkins
- Accession Year
- 1972
- Object Number
- 1972.260
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Obverse: Richard standing in a ship, with sword and shield; reverse: within a tressure of eight arches, floriated cross with a lion in each angle.
- Publication History
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The Frederick M. Watkins Collection, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1973), no. 1, p. 159, repr.
- Exhibition History
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The Frederick M. Watkins Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/31/1973 - 03/14/1973
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