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ID number: BIRBI-B5569 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: Tetarteron Noumion Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1081-1118 Metal: Billon Diameter (cm): 1.75 Weight (g): 4.02 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3478. |
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Description: Obverse: Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated on throne without back; r. hand raised in benediction, holds Gospels in l. hand. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, jeweled loros of simplified type and sagion; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None visible. Reverse: ...ΠOT TW KOMNW (despot, of the Komnenoi)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.36.4
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