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ID number: BIRBI-B5616 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: Tetarteron Noumion Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1081-1118 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.6 Weight (g): 4.54 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3083, A. H. Baldwin, 1956. |

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Description: Obverse: Jeweled, radiate cross, decorated at end of each limb with one large globule. Reverse: Globus cruciger visible beside cross of Class J Anonymous Follis undertype.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ...Φ...Δ (Saviour] protect [Alexios], despot) Reverse: None visible.
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.40a.Var.
Notes: Overstruck on Anonymous Follis, Class J, and on Follis of Nikephoros III.
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