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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-MH0111 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Mardin Hoard Maker: Alexios I; Thessalonica Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine; Turkman Date made: 1087-1092? Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.70 Weight (g): 6.60 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 8029, January 1976. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor, holding in r. hand labarum, in l. hand globus cruciger. Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: + AΛЄΞI …TΨKΨO (Alexios Komnenos, despot) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.18.1 Notes: Countermark 13 ('izz) on reverse at centre; Lowick, Bendall and Whitting 'The Mardin Hoard' pp.38-39 |
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| Thessalonica | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Mardin Hoard | |
| Alexios I Komnenos Byzantine 118 | |
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