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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-B5548 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: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1092/3-1118 Metal: Electrum Diameter (cm): 3 Weight (g): 4.23 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G570, Seaby, August 1956. |
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Description: Obverse: Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne without back; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, skaramangion or divitision and sagion; holds in r. hand jeweled sceptre, and in l. hand globus cruciger. Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: Λ / ΛC / ...IW / ...ЄC / …IO / T / TW / KO / MN… / N... (Alexios, despot, of the Komnenoi) Bibliography: DOC IV.1.22.1 Notes: Gilded; Die drag on reverse. |
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3 Related People | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
| Constantinople Roman;Byzantine | |
| Alexios I Komnenos Byzantine 118 | |
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