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ID number: BIRBI-B5533 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Alexios I; Thessalonica Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1087-1092? Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.65 Weight (g): 5.30 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3482, Glendining, July 1962. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: +AΛЄΞI… (Alexios)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.18.1
Notes: Overstruck on Anonymous Follis, Class K.
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