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ID number:  BIRBI-B5530
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:  One-Third Miliaresion
Place made:  Eurasia: Istanbul
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  1081-1092
Metal:  Billon
Diameter (cm):  1.8
Weight (g):  0.80
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 4912, K. Kress, Munich, February 1965.
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Description:  Obverse: Three-quarter-length figure of Virgin nimbate, orans, wearing tunic and maphorion; beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. Reverse: - + - above legend, - · - below.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: ΘKЄ… (Mother of God) MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: AΛЄΞI / WΔЄCΠΟ / THTWKO / MNHNW (Alexios, despot, of the Komnenoi)

Bibliography:  DOC IV.1.12.2

Notes:  Chipped on obverse at 180 degrees.

3 Related People

Constantinople
Roman;Byzantine


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Whitting, Philip David
British
1903
1988
Alexios I Komnenos
Byzantine

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