1951.31.4.1734: Coin of Manuel I
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1951.31.4.1734
- People
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Manuel I, Byzantine (r. 1143 -1180)
- Title
- Coin of Manuel I
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 1160-1164 CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Constantinople (Thrace)
- Period
- Byzantine period
- Culture
- Byzantine
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/74621
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Electrum
- Metal
- EL
- Technique
- Struck
- Dimensions
- 4.19 g
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Obverse Inscription: IC XC (both overlined) Bordered dais.
- Reverse Inscription: MANU(horizontal line in center)HA(without line in center) O O(horizontal line in center)E O A W P O S
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- DOC 4.1, 4c.4 (p. 300)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore
- Accession Year
- 1951
- Object Number
- 1951.31.4.1734
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Obv.: Inscription in field. Full-length figure of Christ, standing on dais, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds Gospels in l. hand. * * in field. Pellet in each limb of nimbus cross.
Rev.: Inscription. Full-length figure of emperor, bearded, on l., an dof St. Theodore, bearded and nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft at base of which a large globe. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds sheathed sword in r. hand. Saint wears short military tunic and breastplate; holds sheathed sword in l. hand.
Verification Level
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