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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5579 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): 2.5 Weight (g): 3.86 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3004, Spink, August 1955. |
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Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; (holds Gospels in l. hand?) Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on r. and of Virgin nimbate, holding between them labarum on long shaft. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; Virgin wears tunic and maphorion. Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: …WIZꓛΛΛ+ (Alexios…) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.29 (Barber coin image used) Notes: Die engraved in mirror-image. |
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3 Related People | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Thessalonica | |
| Alexios I Komnenos Byzantine 118 | |
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