Coin of Isaac II | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1951.31.4.1827
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, Constantinople (Thrace)
Period: Byzantine period, Middle
Culture: Byzantine
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/74780

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Billon
Metal: Bi
Technique: Struck
Dimensions: 2.49 g

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: DOC 4.1, 3e.1 (p. 382)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore
Accession Year: 1951
Object Number: 1951.31.4.1827
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Obv.: Inscription in upper field. Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne with back; holds beardless, nimbaet head of Christ on breast. Asterisk on Virgin's throne to either side.

Rev.: Inscription i two columnar groups. Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, jeweled loros of simplified type, and sagion; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger, and in l., anexikakia. Manus Dei in upper r. field. Collar-piece has six to eight jewels. Loros waist.

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