AN Scyphate Nomisma

Michael VII
Byzantine
Constantinople
Asia Minor
Middle East

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1071-1078

Gold

Diameter: 1 1/8 in. (28 mm)

Weight: 4.33 g

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Arthur Fairbanks, Class of 1886, in memory of his father, Henry Fairbanks, Class of 1853

27.1.29240

Geography

Place Made: Eastern Mediterranean, Turkey, West Asia, Asia

Period

1000-1400

Object Name

Coin

Research Area

Numismatics: Greek and Roman

On view

Inscriptions

Obverse: Bust of Christ facing Reverse: Bust of Michael VII facing

Exhibition History

Gold: Materiality, Morality, and Metaphor, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 14, 2024.

Provenance

Arthur Fairbanks (1864-1944), Class of 1886; given to present collection, 1927.

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