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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.
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