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Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-2000.0822.01 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Maker: Alexios I Komnenos; John II Komnenos; Constantinople Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1092/3 Metal: Billon Diameter (cm): 2.7 Weight (g): 3.69 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Barber acquisition. A. H. Baldwin, 22nd August 2000, found in Cyprus 1998. |

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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-headed sceptre and in l. hand globus cruciger; Christ wears tunic and kolobion; holds Gospels in l. hand. Reverse: Full-length figures of Alexios I on l. and of Eirene, holding between them a patriarchal cross on long shaft; both wear stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; emperor holds anexikakia in r. hand.
Inscriptions: Obverse: …XЄROHΘ… (Lord assist) Reverse: AΛЄΞIWΔ (Alexios, despot) ЄIPHNHAV (Eirene, augusta)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.24.2
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