coin
- Museum number
- 1937,1007.1
- Description
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Gold coin. (whole)
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Profile bust right, with cuirass, paludamentum and diadem. (obverse)
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Victory on globe, front, holding wreath and globus cruciger. (reverse)
- Production date
- 491-518
- Dimensions
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Die-axis: 6 o'clock
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Weight: 1.37 grammes
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- Curator's comments
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Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager ‘Summary Catalogue’ (draft MS)
Provenance:
Near Bergamo, prov. Bergamo, Italy; nos. 1897,0324.12 to 39 from three graves (MS letter from vendor, date indecipherable); associated on Bill of Purchase (22.3.1897) with nos. 4637 to 9 (unidentified), and said to have been pinned on three boards.
Published:
SMITH R.A. 1923. A Guide to the Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic Antiquities in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. London, p. 155
FUCHS S. 1938. Die Langobardischen Goldblattkreuze aus der Zone südwärts der Alpen , Archäologisches Institut des Deutschen Reiches Abteilung Rom. Berlin, p. 78 no. 70 (wrong provenance)
VON HESSEN O. 1975. Langobardische Goldblattkreuze aus Italien, in W. Hübener (ed) Die Goldblattkreuze des frühen Mittelalters, Veröffentlichung des Alemannischen Instituts Freiburg i Br., no. 37, Bühl/Baden, p. 121 G and E (sic)
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This group displays, on the reverse, a Victory with a style of drapery that, according to Metlich, shows a similar treatment of to the Senigallia Medallion (Metlich 3). In the field, the star is on the right and the exergue COMOB suggest that Rome is the most probable mint. Likewise, the style of the bust of the emperor is stylistically similar to other Roman issues.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Acquisition notes
- Found in a grave, see nos. 1897,0324.12 to 39. (MS letter from vendor, date undecipherable); associated on Bill of Purchase (22.3.1897) with nos. 4637 to 9 (unidentified), and said to have been pinned on three boards
- Department
- Money and Medals
- Registration number
- 1937,1007.1
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1897,0324.21 (Original British & Medieval dept registration number)