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ID number: BIRBI-B4837 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Lord Grantley Maker: Anonymous; Kherson Denomination: Follis Place made: Crimean Peninsula: Kherson Culture: Byzantine Date made: 8th century Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.60 Weight (g): 2.09 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 4789. A. H. Baldwin, 3rd November 1964. 'In a group of coins that look as if they were remnants of Grantley 2546.' |

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Description: Obverse: A. Reverse: Monogram of Cherson.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None. Reverse: None.
Bibliography: DOC III.2 pl. XXXV AE4 (Alexander); Anokhin pl. XXIV 349.
Notes: Usually referenced as Alexander, reassigned fairly convincingly by Anokhin to an anonymous issue of the archontes of the city of Kherson in the 8th century.
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