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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1951.31.4.1734
People
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
  • 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
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Descriptions

Description
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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