Aspron Tracy from Thessalonica Artist: Unknown
Mint: Thessalonica (Macedonia)

1204–24

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Billon

Dimensions

3.68 g, 6:00, 30.6 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001

Accession Number

2001.87.21944

Geography

Retailed in Istanbul, Turkey, Made in Thessalonica, Macedonia

Culture

Byzantine

Period

13th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: IC XC in field. Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; r. raised in benediction, holds Gospels in l. Cross above cushion of throne, to r.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: Legend. Full-length figures of Saints Helen (on l.) and Constantine (on r.), holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft and step. Both wear stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; St. Helen holds jeweled scepter, St. Constantine, scepter cruciger.
Provenance
Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., 1933–2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

aspron, coins, money

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