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Bendall spent August 1980 at Dumbarton Oaks, working on their Byzantine coin collection with Professor Philip Grierson, and later reading the text of Grierson’s Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collections and in the Whittemore Collection, Vol. V, Michael VIII to Constantine XI, 1258 - 1453.
Byzantine currency, money used in the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the West, consisted of mainly two types of coins: gold solidi and hyperpyra and a variety of clearly valued bronze coins. By the 15th century, the currency was issued only in debased silver stavrata and minor copper coins with no gold issue. [ 1 ]
Dumbarton Oaks, formally the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, is a historic estate in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was the residence and gardens of wealthy U.S. diplomat Robert Woods Bliss and his wife Mildred Barnes Bliss .
Scyphate is a term frequently used in numismatics to refer to the concave or "cup-shaped" Byzantine coins of the 11th–14th centuries.. This usage emerged in the premodern era [1] and was solidified by scholars of the 19th century, when the term scyphatus, attested in south Italian documents of the 11th and 12th centuries, was erroneously interpreted as deriving from the Greek word skyphos ...
Hyperpyron of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos (r. 1143–1180), showing its typical scyphate (cup-shaped) form.. The hyperpyron (Greek: νόμισμα ὑπέρπυρον nómisma hypérpyron) was a Byzantine coin in use during the late Middle Ages, replacing the solidus as the Byzantine Empire's standard gold coinage in the 11th century.
Israeli archaeologists have hailed the discovery of 44 gold coins in a wall as a rare glimpse into the Byzantine Empire past at a time of violent conquest.
Museum Antalya, Sion treasure 01 Byzantine collections of Dumbarton OaksDSCF7901 silver. The Sion Treasure (also known as the Kumluca treasure) is a group of liturgical objects and church furnishings found in Kumluca, Turkey in 1963. [1] It consists of 53 to 58 objects.
Dumbarton Oaks (1973), Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection: Leo III to Nicephorus Iii, 717–1081 see also Dumbarton Oaks, "Michael VII Doukas (1071–1078)", God's Regents on Earth: A Thousand Years of Byzantine Imperial Seals
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