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ID number: BIRBI-B5546 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: Hyperpyron Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1092/3-1118 Metal: Gold Diameter (cm): 3.05 Weight (g): 4.32 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting G0086, Seaby, 1948. |

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Description: Obverse: Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; r. hand raised in benediction, l. hand holds Gospel. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision and chlamys; holds labarum-headed sceptre in r. hand, holds globus cruciger in l. hand; Manus Dei in upper r. field.
Inscriptions: Obverse: +KЄRO HΘЄI (Lord, aid) IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: Λ / ΛC / ΞIW / ΔCC / ΠΟ / TH / TW / BO / MNH / NW (Alexios, despot, of the Komnenoi)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.20c.6
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