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Numismatics

ID number:  BIRBI-B5523
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:  Debased Trachy Nomisma
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  1087-1092
Metal:  Billon
Diameter (cm):  2.9
Weight (g):  3.46
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 2400, A. H. Baldwin, 23rd January 1954.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds Gospels in l. hand; two pellets in each limb of nimbus cross. Reverse: Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision and chlamys; holds in r. hand sceptre with leaved cross head, in l. hand globus cruciger.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: None visible. Reverse: ΛΛЄΞW… (Alexios)

Bibliography:  DOC IV.1.3.2

Notes:  Gilded

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