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Coin of Manuel I
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Obv.: Inscription in field. Full-length figure of Christ, standing on dais, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds Gospels in l. hand. * * in field. Pellet in each limb of nimbus cross.
Rev.: Inscription. Full-length figure of emperor, bearded, on l., an dof St. Theodore, bearded and nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft at base of which a large globe. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds sheathed sword in r. hand. Saint wears short military tunic and breastplate; holds sheathed sword in l. hand.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Thomas Whittemore
Title: Coin of Manuel I
Description:
Obv.
: Inscription in field.
Full-length figure of Christ, standing on dais, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds Gospels in l.
hand.
* * in field.
Pellet in each limb of nimbus cross.
Rev.
: Inscription.
Full-length figure of emperor, bearded, on l.
, an dof St.
Theodore, bearded and nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft at base of which a large globe.
Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds sheathed sword in r.
hand.
Saint wears short military tunic and breastplate; holds sheathed sword in l.
hand.
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