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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5534 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: Follis Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1087-1092? Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 3.2 Weight (g): 8.24 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3481, R. M. Cunningham, February 1951. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. hand globus cruciger. Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: +AΛЄΞI… (Alexios) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.18.1 Notes: Overstruck on Anonymous Follis, Class K, in turn struck on Anonymous Follis, Class E, in turn struck on Anonymous Follis, Class C. |
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| Alexios I Komnenos Byzantine 118 | |
| Thessalonica | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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