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Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-B5524 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Karageorgiou, N. C. Maker: Alexios I; Constantinople Denomination: Debased Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1087-1092 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.8 Weight (g): 4.32 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G0377, ex. N. Karageorgiou, October 1964. |
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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: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: +ΛΛEΞIWΔЄΠOT,TWKM (Alexios despot, of the Komnenoi)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.3.2
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