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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5550 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Alexios I; Eirene Doukaina; John II; Constantinople Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1092/93 Metal: Billon Diameter (cm): 2.8 Weight (g): 3.49 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3791. |
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Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of John II beardless, standing on dais, on l., crowned by Christ, bearded and nimbate. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum-topped sceptre and in l. hand globus cruciger; Christ wears tunic and kolobion; holds Gospel in l. hand. Reverse: Full-length figures of Alexios I, on l., and of Eirene, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft; both wear stemma (that of the empress is surmounted by triangular ornaments), divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; emperor holds anexikakia in r. hand. Inscriptions: Obverse: …KЄPO… (Lord, aid) Reverse: ...ΛЄΞΙWΔ (Alexios, despot) ЄIPHNAV… (Eirene, augusta) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.21 Notes: Pierced on reverse at 45 degrees. |
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4 Related People | |
| Alexios I Komnenos Byzantine 118 | |
| John II Komnenos Byzantine c. 1262 1297 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
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