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ID number: BIRBI-MH0094 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Mardin Hoard Maker: Alexios I; Thessalonica Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine; Turkman Date made: 1081-87? Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.45 Weight (g): 6.35 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 8170, January 1976. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion; holds beardless, nimbate Christ on breast. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jewelled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: None visible. Reverse: ...ΔЄCΠΟΤΤ… (Alexios, despot)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.18.2
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