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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5560 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Alexios I; Thessalonica Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1081-1118 Metal: Billon Diameter (cm): 2.6 Weight (g): 4.02 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3111, found in Cyprus, January 1957. |
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Description: Obverse: Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne with back; holds Gospels in l. hand. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, skaramangion or divitision and sagion; holds in r. hand jeweled sceptre (2 jewels) and l. hand rests on hip. Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: Λ / ΛC / ΞIW / ΔЄC / ΠO / T / TW / KO / MN / N (Alexios, despot, of the Komnenoi) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.28
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| Thessalonica | |
| Alexios I Komnenos Byzantine 118 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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