Coin of Isaac II | Harvard Art Museums

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: 12th-13th century
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.

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