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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5537 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Alexios I; Constantinople Denomination: Hyperpyron Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1092/3-1118 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 2.95 Weight (g): 4.30 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G0090, A. H. Baldwin, January 1949. |
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Description: Obverse: Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; r. hand raised in benediction, l. hand holds Gospel. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision and chlamys; holds labarum-headed sceptre in r. hand, holds globus cruciger in l. hand; Manus Dei in upper r. field. Inscriptions: Obverse: +KЄRO HOЄI (Lord, aid) IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: A / ΛЄ / ΞIW / ΔCC / ΠΟ / TH / T / W / KO / MNH / N /W (Alexios, despot, of the Komnenoi) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.20a.3 Notes: Double struck on reverse. |
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3 Related People | |
| Alexios I Komnenos Byzantine 118 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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