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Hyperpyron of John II (First Coinage)
Byzantine
Byzantine Period
A.D. 1118–1122?
Mint: Constantinople
Medium/Technique
Gold
Dimensions
Diameter: 33 mm; Weight: 4.34 gm; Die Axis: 6
Credit Line
Edward Jackson Holmes Collection—Bequest of Mrs. Edward Jackson Holmes
Accession Number65.374
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CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
DescriptionObverse: Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; r. hand raised in benediction, holds Gospels in l. Reverse: Half-length figure of emperor on l., and of Virgin, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and paneled loros of simplified type; holds anexikakia in r. hand. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion. Manus Dei in upper l. field.
InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed in Greek across field "IC XC".