1986.528.397: One Grosh
Coins
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1986.528.397
- People
-
Unidentified Artist
- Title
- One Grosh
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 1360-1396
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Bulgaria
- Culture
- Bulgarian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/181643
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
-
irreg.: 1.8 cm diam. x 0.1 cm depth (11/16 x 1/16 in.)
0.53 g
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Nanette Rodney Kelekian, Gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1986.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Nanette B. Rodney
- Accession Year
- 1986
- Object Number
- 1986.528.397
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Obverse: king seated on a throne with long cross and scepter reverse: nimbate head of Christ. Pierced at 5 o'clock to obverse. Obverse and reversed inscribed identically in Cyrillic. Beaded inner border on obverse and reverse.
Verification Level
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