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Aspron Trachy of Theodore I (Type B)
Byzantine
Byzantine Period
A.D. 1208–1212?
Object Place: Byzantine Empire, Constantinople (Istanbul), Middle East; Mint: Nicaea
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
Diameter: 30 mm; Weight: 2.88 gm; Die Axis: 6
Credit Line
Anonymous gift in memory of Zoë Wilbour (1864–1885)
Accession Number35.433
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CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
DescriptionObverse: Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne with back; holds Gospels in l. hand. 5 pellets in each limb of nimbus cross. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l., and of St. Theodore, bearded and nimbate, holding between them long shaft, at head of which is a star. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, jeweled loros of simplified type, and sagion; holds sheathed sword, point downward, in r. hand. Saint wears short military tunic, breastplate, and sagion; holds sheathed sword, point downward, in l. hand.
ProvenanceAnonymous gift in memory of Zoe Wilbour (1864-1885).