1951.31.4.1836: Coin of Isaac II
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1951.31.4.1836
- People
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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
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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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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