coin
- Museum number
- 1857,1226.7
- Description
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Copper coin. (whole)
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King dressed in Byzantine imperial attire, wearing stemma, and holding a globus cruciger with legend in Georgian. (obverse)
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Cross encircled by inscription in Georgian. (reverse)
- Production date
- 1089-1125
- Dimensions
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Die-axis: 12 o'clock
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Diameter: 35 millimetres
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Weight: 10.800 grammes
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From Georganteli and Cook (2006), p. 47:
"It is only on the copper coins of David IV the Builder (1089-1125) that the Georgian king appears equal to his Byzantine counterpart. He is shown on the obverse dressed in Byzantine imperial attire, wearing stemma, and holding a globus cruciger (illus. 35), and the accompanying inscription in Georgian refers to him simply as King David. On the reverse an invocation in Georgian surrounding a cross lists the extent of David's kingdom: 'Lord aid David, king of Abkhazians, Kartvelians, Ranians, Kakhetians, Armenians.'"
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2019 Sep-Dec, Tblisi, Georgia, Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia, Medieval Treasures of Georgia
- Acquisition date
- 1857
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- 1857,1226.7
