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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1951.31.4.1836
People
Isaac II, Byzantine (r. 1185 - 1204)
Title
Coin of Isaac II
Classification
Coins
Work Type
coin
Date
1185-1195 CE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Thessalonica (Macedonia)
Period
Byzantine period, Middle
Culture
Byzantine
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/74762

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Metal
AE
Technique
Struck
Dimensions
3.64 g

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
DOC 4.1, 5a.3 (p. 390)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore
Accession Year
1951
Object Number
1951.31.4.1836
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Obv.: Bust of archangel Michael, beardless and nimbate, wearing divitision, collar-piee, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand jeweled scepter, or spear, an din l., gl. cr. Inscription obscure.

Rev.: Inscription in two columnar groups. Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger, and in l., anexikakia.

Verification Level

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